FACT OF THE DAY:

Today (8/4) in 1922 Lewis earned a first class (highest honors) degree in Literae Humaniores (“Greats”) from Oxford.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

[Screwtape advises:] “Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware of that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.”

The Screwtape Letters XIV
(Published in The Guardian on 8/1/1941)