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Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know.
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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Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.
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And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
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To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time man measures everything by his own experience he has no other yardstick.
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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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I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.
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We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.
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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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Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.
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We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.
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What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?
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What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.
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If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle
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Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.
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The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.
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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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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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