A Quote by Muriel Spark

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

Muriel Spark

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Muriel Spark
Scottish - Novelist
February 1, 1918 - April 13, 2006

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Jean-Baptiste Say

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There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.

Paul P. Harris

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Isaac Barrow

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R. H. Tawney

Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the chief virtues; but to continue in trade long after this result is obtained, is one of the signs, not to be mistaken, of a sordid and ignoble nature.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Michael Lerner

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Margaret Atwood

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David Starkey

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Pico Iyer

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Noah Webster

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

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