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To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

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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