“To be a servant is to be liberated from self-concern. It is to be so fully devoted to the common good that one hardly thinks of one’s own wants and needs at all.”
Quote by Ralph C. Wood
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The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-earth
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