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

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Rose Macaulay: "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's Quotations

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Admirable	Almost	Closely	Convenience
Exalted	Family	Fits	Group
Ideal	Ideals	Indeed	Living
Necessity	Often	Other	Persons
Pleasure	Related	Religious	Reverse
Roof	Sometimes	Under	Understood

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