Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say wheth…

C. S. Lewis
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Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed? ✨ C.S. Lewis (2005). A Preface to Paradise Lost, p.11, Atlantic Publishers & Dist
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Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed? ✨ C.S. Lewis (2005). A Preface to Paradise Lost, p.11, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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