Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject. (Dorothy L. Sayers)

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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