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The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.
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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If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.
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She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.
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