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We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.
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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I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.
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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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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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