"It's a dangerous business, going out your..." - Quote by J R R Tolkien
It's a dangerous business, going out your door.
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“The burned hand teaches best.”
“I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do not care which of them you think White.”
“These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can." -- The Silmarllion, JRR Tolkien”
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“On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there.”
“Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind!”
“You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!”
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“Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.”
“The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.”
“The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.”