Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really…

C. S. Lewis
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Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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