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Katharine Fullerton Gerould
American
Writer
About the author
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould,
American
Writer
#Time
#Life
#Nothing
#Living
One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould,
American
Writer
#Men
#Burden
#Women
#Falsehood
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould,
American
Writer
#Originality
Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould,
American
Writer
#May
#Concern
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould,
American
Writer
#End
#Logic
#Thought
#Experience
#Instinct
#Morality
#Salvation
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould,
American
Writer
#Work
#Ignorance
#Learning
#Suspicion
#Materialism
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould,
American
Writer
#Time
#Civilization
Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould,
American
Writer
#Manners
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould,
American
Writer
#Life
#Simplicity
#Mankind
#Taste
Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould,
American
Writer
#People
#Will
#Care
#Legislation
All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould,
American
Writer
#Privacy