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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.
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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I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.
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