There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is …

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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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