“The safest road to Hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

— Clive Staples Lewis , book The Screwtape Letters

Letter XII
The Screwtape Letters (1942)

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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