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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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Placetne, magistra? Placet.
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The first thing a principle does is kill somebody
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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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There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
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The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.
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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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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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There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.
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Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.
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Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know.
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Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
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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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But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.
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I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.
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... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.
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The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.
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But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.
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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
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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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I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves.
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