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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.
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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All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.
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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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He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
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It's very good of you-- No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho and all that. And I'll call again, if I may. I will give the footman orders to admit you, said the prisoner, gravely, you will always find me at home.
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People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.
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But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.
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Advertise, or go under.
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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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We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.
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Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.
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How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.
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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.
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The recognition of the truth that we get in the artist's work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. We did not know it before, but the moment it is shown to us, we know that, somehow or other, we had always known it.
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The doctrine of hell is not mediaeval priestcraft for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment on sin.... We cannot repudiate hell without altogether repudiating Christ.
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