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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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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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It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass one's so handicapped by one's baggage.
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whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.
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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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Advertise, or go under.
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