A Defense from Temptation

The man (woman) who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two cents what other people say about it, is by that very fact fore-armed against some our subtlest modes of attack. I have known a human defended from strong temptations to social ambition by a still stronger taste for liver and onions. – C.S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters, ch. XIII)

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