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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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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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Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
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He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
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God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.
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First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.
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