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That there is a secret itself is a secret.

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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But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.
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That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.
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Well-bred English people never have imagination.
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None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
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The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.
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It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.
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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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The young were always theoretical only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.
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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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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.
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We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.
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