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J R R Tolkien Quotes

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'Courage is found in unlikely places.'

'I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.'

'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.'

'It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him'


Died in Bournemouth, Dorset
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http://www.tolkiensociety.org/ Tolkien Society

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