He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave hi…

J. R. R. Tolkien
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He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Hobbit, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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