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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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France

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A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. – George Borrow

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