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How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

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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