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I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.
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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People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.
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Very dangerous things, theories.
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Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind they make life more interesting.
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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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There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.
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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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