But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent…

C. S. Lewis
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But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another. ✨ The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis, (Ch. 10), 1954.
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But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another. ✨ The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis, (Ch. 10), 1954.

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