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"Down these mean paths a hobbit must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete hobbit and a common hobbit and yet an unusual hobbit. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a hobbit of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best hobbit in his world and a good enough hobbit for any world."