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The Mathom-house it was called; for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom.
“A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid,"
He asked to gain time, until he could think of a really hard one. This he thought a dreadfully easy chestnut, though he had not asked it in the usual words. But it proved a nasty poser for Gollum. He hissed to himself, and still he did not answer; he whispered and spluttered.
After some while Bilbo became impatient. "Well, what is it?" He asked. "The answers not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think from the noise you are making.”
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Yet golden treasure inside is hid,"
He asked to gain time, until he could think of a really hard one. This he thought a dreadfully easy chestnut, though he had not asked it in the usual words. But it proved a nasty poser for Gollum. He hissed to himself, and still he did not answer; he whispered and spluttered.
After some while Bilbo became impatient. "Well, what is it?" He asked. "The answers not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think from the noise you are making.”
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“There are other forces at work in this world besides the will of evil.”
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“Philosophy? What good is that? Isn’t it the art of saying nothing with as many words as possible?”
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“And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us.”
― The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive)
― The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive)
“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”
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