And, will you believe it, one out of every three is a thought of self-admiration… I pretend I am carefully thinking out what to say to the next pupil (for his good, of course) and then suddenly realize I am really thinking how frightfully clever I am going to be and how he will admire me… And then you force yourself to stop it, you admire yourself for doing that. It's like fighting the hydra.
— CS Lewis, Collected Letters I — to Arthur Greeves
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