With a twist.
I want you to guess at who said it.
I also want you to tell me what it means to you.
You can find it easily enough with Google-Fu, but think about and answer those two questions before you go ruining it for yourself, mmm-kay?
Here you go
If simple folks are free from care and fear, simple they will be.
Thanks.
It sounds like something Ben Franklin would say.
It means “no stress, no character” to me!
Gandalf, or someone of that ilk. Speaking of those crafty hobbits,
I had to cheat because I recognized it and it was bothering me…
I could see it going two ways, one being the “Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
The other way I could see it is that people remain simple from not going through real trials. Kind of like if you received enough food, housing, and cash from the government that you don’t have to do anything else. So you’ll never starve but will never thrive.
I believe it was Gandalf, speaking with Aragorn about the hobbits. I reckon it takes fire to temper steel.
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