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She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
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'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.
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It's very good of you-- No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho and all that. And I'll call again, if I may. I will give the footman orders to admit you, said the prisoner, gravely, you will always find me at home.
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Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.
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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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