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There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
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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I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.
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The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.
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That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.
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this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.
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It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.
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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
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Christendom and heathendom now stand face to face... At bottom is a violent and irreconcilable quarrel about the nature of God and the nature of an and the ultimate nature of the universe it is a war of dogma.
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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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It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.
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Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward to look forward we must believe in age.
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Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.
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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.
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How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!
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What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.
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the truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise you might compare the number of people who follow the predictions of astrologers in the daily press with those who attend lectures by Einstein, and conclude that astrology was more valuable and true than physics.
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Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.
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I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.
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You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
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If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.
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