I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought n…

C. S. Lewis
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I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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