Great Throughts Treasury

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J. L. Balsford

There are men whose stomachs are the clamorous creditors that sooner or later throw them into bankruptcy.

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J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

I will vouch for him before the seat of Denethor,' said Gandalf. 'And as for valour, that cannot be computed by stature. He has passed through more battles and perils than you have, Ingold, though you be twice his height; and he comes now from the storming of Isengard, of which we bear tidings, and great weariness is on him, or I would wake him. His name is Peregrin, a very valiant man.'

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