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Firsts Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers
- First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.
- What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he…
- To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has to solve...And he…
- It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.
- The first thing a principle does is kill somebody
- Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with…
- But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose…
- Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin,…
- 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…
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