“Lord Peter Wimsey: I always said the professional advocate was the most amoral person on the face of the earth. I'm certain of it now.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers, book Clouds of Witness

Clouds of Witness (1926)

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

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