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To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.
-George MacDonald
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To Cease To Wonder Is To Fall

George MacDonald
To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.
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