Quote by Rose Macaulay
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. - Ro

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. – Rose Macaulay

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We know one another’s faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws. – Rose Macaulay

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Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank. – Rose Macaulay

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Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this. – Rose Macaulay

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. – Oscar Wilde

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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. – St. Bernard

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He who puts up with insult invites injury. – Yiddish Proverb

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Insults should be well avenged or well endured. – Scottish Proverb

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