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Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
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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the truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise you might compare the number of people who follow the predictions of astrologers in the daily press with those who attend lectures by Einstein, and conclude that astrology was more valuable and true than physics.
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We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.
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To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.
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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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Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.
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make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.
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How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!
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If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle
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Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.
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whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.
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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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It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.
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I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.
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Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward to look forward we must believe in age.
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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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Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
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Britain possesses no climate, only weather.
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There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
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