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You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

— C. S. Lewis Attributed

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Wikiquote lists this as attributed to C. S. Lewis, but no primary source has been found.

Source: In Walter Hooper, Of This and Other Worlds (1982), Preface, p. 9
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