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The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

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Dorothy L. Sayers

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.

Know, Law, Lawyers, Littles, Mystery, Workhouse
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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 reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves.

Character, Characters, Details, Facts, Historian, Unless

The only Christian work is good work, well done

Christian, Done, Good Work, Work, Work Well Done

Praise God (or whatever it is) from (if direction exists) whom (if personality exists) all blessings (if that word corresponds to any percept of objective reality) flow (if Heraclitus and Bergson and Einstein are correct in stating that everything is more or less flowing about).

Blessing, Blessings, God, Personality, Reality

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.

Boxes, Branches, Classic, Gothic, Nature, Wall

I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it.

Act, Know, Law, Mean, Needs, People
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