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“You are an interfering old busybody,' laughed Bilbo, 'but I expect you know best, as usual.' 'I do - when I know anything.”

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Book:The Lord of the Rings

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“Ti hoćeš da mi daš taj prsten od svoje volje! Na mesto Mračnog Gospodara hoćeš da postaviš jednu gospodaricu. Ali ja neću biti mračna, nego lepa i strašna kao Jutro i Noć. Užasna kao Oluja i Munja, Snažnija od temelja zemlje. Svi će me voleti i očajavati.”

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“Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting.”

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