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... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.
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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That there is a secret itself is a secret.
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To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time man measures everything by his own experience he has no other yardstick.
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There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.
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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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To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.
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It is as dangerous for people unaccustomed to handling words and unacquainted with their technique to tinker about with these heavily-charged nuclei of emotional power as it would be for me to burst into a laboratory and play about with a powerful electromagnet or other machine highly charged with electrical force.
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He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
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The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.
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Advertise, or go under.
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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
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Advertising never sold a bad product twice.
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this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.
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If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.
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It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.
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The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
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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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To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
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Placetne, magistra? Placet.
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The young were always theoretical only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.
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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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