Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. -C. S. Lewis

 

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.


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Nothing is beautiful except the abnormal; and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

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A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered. -C. S. Lewis
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

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