The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. LewisHoliness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.
C. S. LewisThose who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
C. S. LewisBut he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.
C. S. LewisGirls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.
C. S. LewisWhen the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry into the whole thing. And in the inquiry all sorts of things about Experiment House came out, and about ten people got expelled. After that, the Head's friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after.
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