High Street in Oxford in the 1890s, shortly before C. S. Lewis was born. \u00a0He would spend much of his life there.
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\u201cEven in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nC. S. Lewis<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/p>
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