We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expre…

C. S. Lewis
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We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed. ✨ C.S. Lewis (1996). Joyful Christian, p.119, Simon and Schuster
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