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“There is nothing to be ashamed of in enjoying your food: there would be everything to be ashamed of if half the world made food the main interest of their lives and spent their time looking at pictures of food and dribbling and smacking their lips.”
― The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
― The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“Everybody overstates his case, particularly when he is anxious to do something which he considers useful.”
― South Wind
― South Wind
“Mr. Frederick Parker spent a good deal of his time in endeavouring to mask, under a cloak of boisterous good humour, a really remarkable combination of malevolence and imbecility.”
― South Wind
― South Wind
“The older I get,” observed Mr. van Koppen, “the more I realize that everything depends upon what a man postulates. The rest is plain sailing.”
― South Wind
― South Wind
“Some ages are lukewarm and complacent, and then it is our business to soothe them yet faster asleep. Other ages, of which the present is one, are unbalanced and prone to faction, and it is our business to inflame them. Any small coterie, bound together by some interest which other men dislike or ignore, tends to develop inside itself a hothouse mutual admiration, and towards the outer world, a great deal of pride and hatred which is entertained without shame because the ‘Cause’ is its sponsor and it is thought to be impersonal.”
― The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
― The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
El’s 2025 Year in Books
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