A merrier world

There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Thorin 
spoken to Bilbo in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit

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