To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can desc — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can desc — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can desc — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can desc — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can desc — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
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— Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
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