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Things Quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Very dangerous things, theories.
- I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are…
- We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.
- I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have…
- It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.
- 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…
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