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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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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Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.
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the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.
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