Quote by Rose Macaulay
We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortification

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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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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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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Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. – Ugo Betti

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It’s hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own. – Pam Brown

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An older sister helps one remain half child, half woman. – Author Unknown

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Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring — quite often the hard way. – Pamela Dugdale

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We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much. – Joshua Chamberlain

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The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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