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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.
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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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.
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It is as dangerous for people unaccustomed to handling words and unacquainted with their technique to tinker about with these heavily-charged nuclei of emotional power as it would be for me to burst into a laboratory and play about with a powerful electromagnet or other machine highly charged with electrical force.
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We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.
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