“People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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

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

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“People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.”

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