The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise tha…

C. S. Lewis
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The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1971). The Four Loves, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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