"You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair"

-- C. S. Lewis

#Wonder Quotes #Silver Quotes #Chairs Quotes

“Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.”
“Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.”

Source : X. J. Kennedy (2007). “In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955–2007”, p.12, JHU Press
“Anybody who wants to learn everything is pretty stupid. You learn what you can.”
“The Gods have meant That I should dance And by the Gods I will!”
“We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.”
“During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of my first novel. I can still recite the opening paragraph from memory - only now I cringe when I do it because they are - surprise! - a classic example of overwriting, in addition to being a more than a little pretentious.”
“A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.”
“Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.”

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