"I am concerned only with the proper training of the mind to encounter and deal with the formidable mass of undigested problems presented to it by the ...
What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha
~ Dorothy L. Sayers ~
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What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha
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"Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force.
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"In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I think, all...
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"A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.
"Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.
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