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Dorothy L. Sayers

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Everybody suspects an eager desire to curry favour, but rudeness, for some reason, is always accepted as a guarantee of good faith. The only man who ever managed to see through rudeness was Saint Augustine. - Lord Peter Wimsey

 
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