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“"I wish life was not so short," he thought. "Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about."”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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Wikiquote: J. R. R. Tolkien
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Context

"Alboin Errol", in The Lost Road (1987). Compare this with "The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne" by Geoffrey Chaucer

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Tolkien, J. R. R.. (n.d.). Wikiquote: J. R. R. Tolkien. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien

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