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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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 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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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. – Elbert Hubbard

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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. – G.K. Chesterton

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A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. – Jeremy Collier

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In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. – Stéphane Mallarmé

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