To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. (, 8 September 1935) (Dorothy L. Sayers)

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. (, 8 September 1935)

Dorothy L. Sayers

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