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What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.
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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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
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Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind they make life more interesting.
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But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.
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... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.
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What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?
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He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
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It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.
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There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.
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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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The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
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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.
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I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves.
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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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I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.
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