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“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.”
 
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C. S. Lewis
 
Nationality:   British
 
Date of Birth:   Nov 29, 1898
 
Date of Death:   Nov 22,  1963
 
Profession:   Author
 
 
 
 
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