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Mere Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your…
- In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him…
- I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that…
- Surely you do not disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don't really suppose, do you, that all…
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- The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. — Douglas Adams
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