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“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
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“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
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― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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