Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterne…

J. R. R. Tolkien
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Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings, p.849, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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