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I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

~Dorothy L. Sayers

Topics: Am Come Home Love Love You Rest You I Am I Love I Love You

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I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

~Dorothy L. Sayers

Topics: Always Everything Original Quotation Saves Thinking

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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

~Dorothy L. Sayers

Topics: About Advantage Believes Ever Great Great Advantage Nobody Telling Telling The Truth Truth Truth Is

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None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

~Dorothy L. Sayers

Topics: Experience Feels God How Learn Love None People Realize Teach Till True True Love Us Wicked You

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

~Dorothy L. Sayers

Topics: Advanced Any Earthly Force Old Old Woman Tame Time Trouble Uncontrollable Will Woman Young Young Woman

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

~Dorothy L. Sayers

Topics: Commit Only Passion Sin

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Very dangerous things, theories.

~Dorothy L. Sayers

Topics: Dangerous Theories Things Very

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As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.

~Dorothy L. Sayers

Topics: Bed Care Find Goes Grow Less Older Tomb Toward Who Whom I Care

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Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

~Dorothy L. Sayers

Topics: Advertisement English His Mastery Minds Mislead Only Prefer Sloppy Syntax Thank Themselves Those Uses Vocabulary Weak Weak Minds Who Writer

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The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

~Dorothy L. Sayers

Topics: Air Both Deceptive English English Language Half Hour Kind Language Little Machine Run Simplicity Some Thing Up You

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: June 13th, 1893

Died: December 17th, 1957

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