Ah, finally! I discovered it despite a missing "y" in lucky.
It's The Man-in-the-Moon, speaking to Roverandom about the children who have come there.
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That I ain't going to tell you at all, and you'll never find out. You are lucky, and so is anyone, to get here by any way at all; but the children don't come by your way, at any rate.
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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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