To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's …

J. R. R. Tolkien
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To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door! ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Hobbit, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door! ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Hobbit, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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