When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been asham…

C. S. Lewis
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When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2002). On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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