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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.
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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Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.
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Plain lies are dangerous.
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Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.
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No share-pusher could vend his worthless stock, if he could not count on meeting, in his prospective victim, an unscrupulous avarice as vicious as his own, but stupider. Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
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Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.
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The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary.
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All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons, and it’s an absolute toss-up, isn’t it? If one could only invent them, like characters in books, it would be much more satisfactory to a well-regulated mind.
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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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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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What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?
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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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He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
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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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