The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the worl…

C. S. Lewis
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The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack. ✨ C. S. LEWIS (1961). The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast
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