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The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.
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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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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whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.
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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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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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... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.
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First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.
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We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.
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And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
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Well-bred English people never have imagination.
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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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No share-pusher could vend his worthless stock, if he could not count on meeting, in his prospective victim, an unscrupulous avarice as vicious as his own, but stupider. Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
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