“My good Horse，” said the Hermit， who had approached them unnoticed because his bare feet made so little noise on that sweet， dewy grass. “My good Horse， you’ve lost nothing but your self.conceit. No， no， cousin. Don‘t put back your ears and shake your mane at me. If you are really so humbled as you sounded a minute ago， you must learn to listen to sense. You’re not quite the great Horse you had come to think， from living among poor dumb horses. Of course you were braver and cleverer than them. You could hardly help being that. It doesn‘t follow that you’ll be anyone very special in Narnia. But as long as you know you‘re nobody special， you’ll be a very decent sort of Horse， on the whole， and taking one thing with another. And now， if you and my other four.footed cousin will come round to the kitchen door we‘ll see about the other half of that mash.”
The Unwelcome Fellow Traveller