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There's truth as far as you knows it and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.

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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