Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings…

C. S. Lewis
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Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2013). The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition, p.6, Harper Collins
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