I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.
J. R. R. TOLKIENIt is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.
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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.
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No Victory Without Suffering
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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.
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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’
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Never laugh at live dragons.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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