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He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
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 are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.
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Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
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The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.
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