Lord Peter Wimsey: The first thing a principle does - if it really is a principle - is to kill somebody. (Dorothy L. Sayers)

Lord Peter Wimsey: The first thing a principle does - if it really is a principle - is to kill somebody.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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