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“Your man may be untroubled
about the Future, not because he is concerned with the
Present, but because he has persuaded himself that the
Future is going to be agreeable. As long as that is the real
cause of his tranquillity, his tranquillity will do us good,
because it is only piling up more disappointment, and
therefore more impatience, for him when his false hopes
are dashed.”

“ Even in his sins the Enemy does not want him to think too much: one they are repented , the sooner the man turns his attention outward, the better the Enemy is pleased,

your affectionate Uncle
Screwtape.”