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" A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own. "
Dorothy L. Sayers
Passion
Trying
You
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" Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. "
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" Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. "
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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. "
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" Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous. "
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" As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom. "
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" A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. "
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" While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern. "
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