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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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And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings),…
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Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.
— Lemon Andersen
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The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind…
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