[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one o — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one o — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one o — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one o — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one o — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
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[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

— Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
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