The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multi…

J. R. R. Tolkien
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings, p.937, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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