Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon envy and avarice.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

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About Dorothy L. Sayers

Portrait of Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers ( SAIRZ; 13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic.

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The worst sin—perhaps the only sin—passion can commit, is to be joyless.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

Books… are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

We may argue eloquently that "honesty is the best policy." Unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations.… The root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

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As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves. Even our willingness to look at ourselves critically is often helpful.

—Laurie Helgoe in Introvert Power

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His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

—Samuel Johnson

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I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

—Jess C. Scott in The Devilin Fey

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Envy is a con man, a tugger at your sleeve, a knocker at your door. Let me in for just a moment, it says, for just one moment of your time.… The antidote to envy is one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself. It drives the spooks away.

—Bonita Freedman

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I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind.

—Donna Lynn Hope

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