It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing. ✨ J.…

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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Lord of the Rings: One Volume, p.684, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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