Experience is a brutal teacher. But you'll learn..my god, you will learn.

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Experience is a brutal teacher. But you'll learn..my god, you will learn.

-- C.S. Lewis

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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand. Unless, of course, you can literally believe all that stuff about family reunions 'on the further shore,' pictured in entirely earthly terms. But that is all unscriptural, all out of bad hymns and lithographs. There's not a word of it in the Bible. And it rings false. We

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Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. ~

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A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

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Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. –

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Johnson, who defines as 'metrical composition', defines as 'An inventor; an author of fiction; a writer of poems; one who writes in measure'. We can gauge how far we have traveled by comparing this with the Shorter Oxford Dictionary which, after a definition very like Johnson's, feels obligated to add 'A writer in verse (or sometimes in elevated prose) distinguished by imaginative power, insight, sensibility, and faculty of expression'.

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