Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world an…

C. S. Lewis
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Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall. ✨ C.S.Lewis (2016). The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy, p.109, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED
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