“Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.”
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“For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.”
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“Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.”
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“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”
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“It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.”
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“I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.”
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“Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?”
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“Murder! Fascists! Lions! It isn't fair.”
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“When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.”
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“And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.”
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“But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.”
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“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”
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“Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.”
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“Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?”
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“Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.”
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