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“Leavis demands moral earnestness; I prefer morality. . . . I'd sooner live among people who don’t cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.”

— C. S. Lewis

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Source

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Wikiquote: C. S. Lewis
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Context

"Unreal Estates", Conversation with Brian Aldiss and Kingsley Amis — in Spectrum IV (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965), p. 21

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Lewis, C. S.. (n.d.). Wikiquote: C. S. Lewis. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis

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