But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees
C. S. LewisIt's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.
C. S. LewisKindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.
C. S. LewisIn those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
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