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Her children are either deceased, or following some profession abroad. I too follow professions, but at some distance behind, and seldom catch up with them.

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God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

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I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

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All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should they work? Vote? Marry? Exist? Are not their skirts too short, or their sleeves? Have they a sense of humor, of honor, of direction? Are spinsters superfluous? But how seldom similar inquiries are propounded about men.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

Rose Macaulay

Rose Macaulay
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Born: August 1, 1881
Died: October 30, 1958 (aged 77)
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