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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.
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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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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Well-bred English people never have imagination.
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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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Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know.
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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.
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[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.
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Trouble shared is trouble halved.
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What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
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You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
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