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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.
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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There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
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Very dangerous things, theories.
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If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.
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But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.
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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
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We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.
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