There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than so…

C. S. Lewis
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There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2012). The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature, p.10, Cambridge University Press
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