A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to fee…

C. S. Lewis
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A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1964). Reflections on the Psalms, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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