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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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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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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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Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.
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He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
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What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.
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We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.
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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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If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle
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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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God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.
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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'?).
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The first thing a principle does is kill somebody
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Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.
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The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.
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I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.
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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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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 what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?
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Britain possesses no climate, only weather.
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Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.
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