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Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.
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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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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For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.
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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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But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.
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all conscious thought is a process in time so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.
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To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.
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It's very good of you-- No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho and all that. And I'll call again, if I may. I will give the footman orders to admit you, said the prisoner, gravely, you will always find me at home.
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