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Still I sojourn here, alone and palely loitering, though the sedge is withered from the lake and no birds sing. For I sent the bath towel to the wash this morning, and omitted to put out another. I have no towel.
Rose Macaulay
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Rose Macaulay
Age: 77 †
Born: 1881
Born: April 1
Died: 1958
Died: October 30
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Warwickshire
Emilie Rose Macaulay
Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay
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The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.
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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.
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To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.
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The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.
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One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas.
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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.
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what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?
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Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This word shall bear this meaning,' and see if they can get it across. It is a sporting game, which all can play, only all cannot win.
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It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.
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Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal... unless she's really attractive.
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It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.
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There's one thing about freedom ... each generation of people begins by thinking they've got it for the first time in history, and ends by being sure the generation younger than themselves have too much of it. It can't really always have been increasing at the rate people suppose, or there would be more of it by now.
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