Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his he…

C. S. Lewis
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Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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