The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by…

C. S. Lewis
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The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2014). Letters to an American Lady, p.54, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2014). Letters to an American Lady, p.54, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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