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in that pleasant corner of the world they plied their well-ordered business of living, and they heeded less and less the world outside where dark things moved, until they came to think that peace and plenty were the rule in Middle-earth and
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“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”
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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
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“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
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“To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.”
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“An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.”
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