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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Dorothy L. Sayers
Age: 64 †
Born: 1893
Born: June 13
Died: 1957
Died: December 17
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The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary.
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No share-pusher could vend his worthless stock, if he could not count on meeting, in his prospective victim, an unscrupulous avarice as vicious as his own, but stupider. Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
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But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.
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To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
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It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.
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To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.
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It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.
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whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.
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Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
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How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!
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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
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There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.
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