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Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.
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Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!
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He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as…
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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with…
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Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe…
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
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The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his…
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The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
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Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth:…
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One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor…
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Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
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The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does…
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Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people…
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Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire…
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Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire…
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The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands. . . . It is…
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That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers…
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libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about…
— Umberto Eco
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Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?
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You want to get rich in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and…
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If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Is it true that the American people are war-weary? Absolutely. We are tired of sending our sons and daughters to distant lands…
— Ted Cruz
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Join the Army! Travel to exotic, distant lands. Meet exciting, unusual people, and kill them.
— Unknown Author
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