“The heart of man is not compound of lies, but draws some wis…”

“The heart of man is not compound of lies, but draws some wisdom from the only Wise, and still recalls him. Though now long estranged, man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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