"Lord Peter Wimsey: The first thing a principle does — if it really is a principle — is to kill somebody."
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Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was a British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist.
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