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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

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Courage is found in unlikely places.

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Short cuts make long delays.

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In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.

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Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

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I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.

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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: January 3rd, 1892

Died: September 2nd, 1973

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