Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better. — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin
Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better. — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin
Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better. — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin
Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better. — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin
Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better. — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin
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Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin
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