Quote by Rose Macaulay
Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligen

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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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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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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[W]omen and books should be looked at daily. – Dutch Proverb

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. – Richard Steele, Tatler, 1710

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One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. – A. Bronson Alcott, “Books,” June 1869

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