""Smelling isn't everything" said the Elephant. "Why," said……" — C.S. Lewis
""Smelling isn't everything" said the Elephant. "Why," said the Bulldog, "if a fellow can't trust his nose, what is he to trust?" "Well, his brains perhaps," she replied mildly."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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Laughing brains are more absorbent.
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I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.
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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over…
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But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer…
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