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“Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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Source

Title
Wikiquote: J. R. R. Tolkien
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Context

"A Secret Vice" (lecture, 1931) published in The Monsters And The Critics And Other Essays (1983), edited by Christopher Tolkien

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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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