Muriel Spark

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The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul

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For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like

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Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life

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It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians

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Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid