“A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again, "She's the sort of woman who lives for others—you can always tell the others by their hunted expression."”

— Clive Staples Lewis, book The Screwtape Letters

Letter XXVI
The Screwtape Letters (1942)

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