Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.
("The Screwtape Letters")
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My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world into some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise.
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