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What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.
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 great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
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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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[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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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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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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