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Few Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many...
- In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All…
- You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.
- The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on…
- When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on…
- That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong.…
- I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage, a creature to…
- He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it…
- He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were…
- Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't…
- In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can…
- Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less…
- Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.…
- We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw…
- Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.
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- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
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- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to… — Diane Ackerman
- The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by… — Charles Babbage