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The only Christian work is good work, well done
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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Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind they make life more interesting.
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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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It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.
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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.
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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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Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.
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Very dangerous things, theories.
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Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.
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The recognition of the truth that we get in the artist's work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. We did not know it before, but the moment it is shown to us, we know that, somehow or other, we had always known it.
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Well-bred English people never have imagination.
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We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.
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There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
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Do you know how to pick a lock? Not in the least, I'm afraid. I often wonder what we go to school for, said Wimsey.
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Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
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How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.
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That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.
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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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It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.
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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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