One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize … - Muriel Spark

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We learned that Bernie Sanders was taken advantage of by Hillary Clinton's people, by Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Look what happened to her. But Bernie Sanders was taken advantage of. That's what we learned.

Muriel Spark

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

Full, Girl, Growing Up, Life, Time

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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 the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.

Deception, Inner, Man, Men, Unjust, Words

Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first

Beauty, Firsts, Goodness, Truth, Truth And Beauty

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.

Duco, Lead, Leading, Mean, Roots, Soul

New York, home of the vivisectors of the mind, and of the mentally vivisected still to be reassembled, of those who live intact, habitually wondering about their states of sanity, and home of those whose minds have been dead, bearing the scars of resurrection.

Home, Mind, New York, Reassembled, Resurrection, Vivisectors

[My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy [. . . ], I had my unfinished novel personified almost as a secret companion and accomplice following me like a shadow wherever I went, whatever I did.

Being In Love, Following, Imagination, Long, Novel, Shadow