He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely … - Dorothy L. Sayers

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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.

Dorothy L. Sayers

He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart. " Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain.

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The only Christian work is good work, well done

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Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.

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