You were faster to reply, Gil-Galad!
But in the mean time I found the place in my book.
It was farmer Cotton indeed, in Hobbiton.
He says it to Merry, Frodo and some other Hobbits. It's about the ruffians who have "gone off west to fetch more of the gang".
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Yes! "wish-fulfilment dreams" we spin to cheat
our timid hearts, and ugly Fact defeat!
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