This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a meal, or a drink, or a sleep, or a joke, or a girl, may come in between them and it, and then (even if you are a queen) you'll get no more good out of them until they've had their way.
C. S. LewisDemocracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.
C. S. LewisTo interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.
C. S. LewisThe basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.
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