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# Patricia Meyers Spacks

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Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks is an American literary scholar. She is the Edgar F. Shannon Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia and former president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Modern Language Association. She specializes in eighteenth-century English literature a

##  Quotes by Patricia Meyers Spacks

> [“No reader can fail to agree that the number of books she needs to read far exceeds her capacities, but when the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patricia-meyers-spacks/no-reader-can-fail-to-agree-that-the-number-of-books-she-needs-to/)

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