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Beware the ire of the calm.

Muriel Spark

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Muriel Spark
Age: 88 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 13
Biographer
Editor
Literary Critic
Novelist
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Poet
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Writer
Edinburgh
Scotland
Muriel Sarah Camberg
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark
Beware
Calm

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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.
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