“It’s an ill wind as blows nobody no good, as I always say. And All’s well as ends Better!”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
“An ill wind that blows no man to good.”
Part II, chapter 9.
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