Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhap…

J. R. R. Tolkien
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Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time. ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, p.298, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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