“Bunter: My old mother always used to say, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, they generally run away.”

—  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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