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Adversity
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Trouble shared is trouble halved.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
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Advertising
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Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
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Age
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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
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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
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Boredom
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It is the sin that believes in nothing,
cares for nothing,
seeks to know nothing,
interferes with nothing,
enjoys nothing,
hates nothing,
finds purpose in nothing,
lives for nothing,
and remains alive
because there is nothing for which it will die.
-Dorothy L. Sayers, On Boredom
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Consumerism
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A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, and such a society is a house built upon sand.
-Dorothy L. Sayers, Creed or Chaos?
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Facts
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She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
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Law
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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.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
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Passion
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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
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Sex
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As I grow older and older
And totter towards the tomb,
I find I care less and less
Who goes to bed with whom.
-Dorothy L. Sayers, That's Why I Never Read Modern Novels
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War
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If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
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Books by and about Dorothy L. Sayers