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Likely Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are…
- Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs
- I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given.
- Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you…
- Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the…
- I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we…
- A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has…
- The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made…
- Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the…
- Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers…
- What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in…
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- New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a… — Brendan Behan
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