High places Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

““He says that we have learned nearly all that we know from them, and have been made a nobler people; and he says that the Men that have lately come over the Mountains are hardly better than Orcs.' That is true', answered Sador; 'true at least of some of us. But the up-climbing is painful, and from high places it is easy to fall low.””

J.R.R. Tolkien

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