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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)

Men Without Chests

We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

C. S. Lewis
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