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Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

— Dorothy L. Sayers The Other Six Deadly Sins (1941)

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

Have His Carcase (1932)

The active hatreds rend and snarl at one another; at the bottom, the sullen hatreds lie gurgling, unable even to express themselves for the rage that chokes them.

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 done.

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

Are Women Human? (1938)

The surrender to sin which began with mutual indulgence leads by an imperceptible degradation to solitary self-indulgence.

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