J. R. R. Tolkien - The Hobbit (1937)

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Things are drawing towards the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart up!

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What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.

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Don't tell us about dreams – dream dinners aren't any good and we can't share them.

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It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.

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The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.

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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

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Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever!

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They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody.

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Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!

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This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.

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Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. "If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am!

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