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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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Advertise, or go under.
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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
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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?
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The young were always theoretical only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.
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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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The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.
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That there is a secret itself is a secret.
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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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