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Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

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I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one f...more

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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

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Jill had, as you might say, quite fall in love with the Unicorn. She thought- and she wasn't far wrong- that he was the shiningest, delicatest, most g...more

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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons...more

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The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.

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Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.

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But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to wast...more

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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 ou...more

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I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till no...more

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Only five minutes later he noticed a dozen crocuses growing round the foot of an old tree- gold and purple and white. Then came a sound even more deli...more

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The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seawee...more

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Every moment the patches of green grew bigger and the patches of snow grew smaller. Every moment more and more of the trees shook off their robes of s...more

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this is a book about something

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There was certainly plenty to watch and listen to. The tree which Digory had noticed was now a full-grown beech whose branches swayed gently above his...more