Ah, now I recognize the quote! It's one of my favourites from
Roverandom, and it's the title "hero" speaking to himself:
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I don't believe half of them know where they are going to, or why they are going there, or would know it if they got there.
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For some reason, that strikes me as being an appropriate remark about politicians!
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth..
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