Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always …

J. R. R. Tolkien
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Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Lord of the Rings: One Volume, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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