There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear … - J. R. R. Tolkien

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I'm proud of the U. S. A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.

J. R. R. Tolkien

There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off.

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For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.

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It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

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I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.

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