For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love…

C. S. Lewis
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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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