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Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.
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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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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The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.
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Advertising never sold a bad product twice.
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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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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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