The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not …

J. R. R. Tolkien
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The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings, p.881, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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