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`Take my camel, dear', said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass. - Rose Macaulay Quotes

`Take my camel, dear', said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.

Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical. - Rose Macaulay Quotes

Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.

Bed

You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting. - Rose Macaulay Quotes

You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays -- cynical but hopeful. - Rose Macaulay Quotes

He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays -- cynical but hopeful.

Books And Reading

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 Quotes

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.

Desire Eccentricity

The great and recurrent question about abroad is, is it worth getting there? - Rose Macaulay Quotes

The great and recurrent question about abroad is, is it worth getting there?

Worth

Love's a disease. But curable. - Rose Macaulay Quotes

Love's a disease. But curable.

Disease English Novelist

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day. - Rose Macaulay Quotes

A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal? - Rose Macaulay Quotes

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

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