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What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?
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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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 only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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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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What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls if the answer is, But I don't, there is no more to be said.
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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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... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.
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And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
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