Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever com…

C. S. Lewis
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Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the reasonable period be shorter than the trial is likely to last. It need not be much shorter; in attacks on patience, chastity, and fortitude, the fun is to make the man yield just when (had he but known it) relief was almost in sight. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1995). The Screwtape Letters, Bantam Classics
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