Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing…

C. S. Lewis
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Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words. ✨ Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold. Book by C. S. Lewis, 1956.
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Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words. ✨ Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold. Book by C. S. Lewis, 1956.

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