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But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.
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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Do you know how to pick a lock? Not in the least, I'm afraid. I often wonder what we go to school for, said Wimsey.
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There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.
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She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.
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