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Men Quotes by Muriel Spark
- Beware of men bearing flowers.
- The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to…
- From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.
- No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily…
- It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
- it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
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