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• The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the… — Arnold Bennett
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• But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me. — J.R.R. Tolkien
• We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
• I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes. — J.R.R. Tolkien
• And if Sam considered himself lucky, Frodo knew he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any… — J.R.R. Tolkien
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