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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.
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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That there is a secret itself is a secret.
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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
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I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.
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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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Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.
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Very dangerous things, theories.
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What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.
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