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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.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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More quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers

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.

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

The Other Six Deadly Sins (1941)

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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Man should possess an infinite appetite for life. It should be self-evident to him, all the time, that life is superb, glorious, endlessly rich, infinitely desirable.

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To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.

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In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important a function as recollecting.

William James The Principles of Psychology (1890)

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