C. S. Lewis quote: We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the ...

We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up.

~ C. S. Lewis ~

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