To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the com…

George MacDonald
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To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us. ✨ George MacDonald (2015). Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated), p.13217, Delphi Classics
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