It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent mor…

C. S. Lewis
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It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2014). God in the Dock, p.324, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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