“Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger—according to the way you react to it.”
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“Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing.”
“Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go.”
“Aim at Heaven and you will get earth "thrown in": aim at earth and you will get neither.”
“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness.”
“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know.”
“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God.”
“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
“We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.”
“The new fire is laid, but the particular kind of match is missing.”
“Taxes are an evil—a necessary evil, but still an evil, and the fewer of them we have the better.”
“The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.”
“Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.”
“If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact.”