“Lord Peter Wimsey: The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers , book Gaudy Night

Gaudy Night (1936)

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English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian wr… 1893–1957

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