You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second thin…

C. S. Lewis
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You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2014). God in the Dock, p.310, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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