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Inspirational Quotes by Muriel Spark
- Beware of men bearing flowers.
- Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.
- Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.
- Beware the ire of the calm.
- it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
- I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
- I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
- She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.
- To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
- The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.
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