Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being cor…

C. S. Lewis
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Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all. ✨ C.S. Lewis (2005). A Preface to Paradise Lost, p.50, Atlantic Publishers & Dist
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