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The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).
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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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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Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.
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We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.
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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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Britain possesses no climate, only weather.
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What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion He rose from the dead.
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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
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Advertising never sold a bad product twice.
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We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.
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You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
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Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.
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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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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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Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.
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Well-bred English people never have imagination.
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The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.
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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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We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.
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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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