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• 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

  Real, Simple, Life Is

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• 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.

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  Pregnancy, Intuition, Mastery

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

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  Inspirational Life, Simplicity, Taste

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

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  Tests, Aliens, Kind

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.

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  Clever, Powerful, Long

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.

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  Sex, Men, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Real, Ignorance, College

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• 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.

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  Fall, Men, Perfect

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

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  May, Marry Me, Social

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• ... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.

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  Mistake, Simplicity, Great Men

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• The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.

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  Men, Imagination, Whole

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1971). “Ringside Seats”

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• ... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.

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  Book, Excess, Asparagus

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is all-inclusive. But a method can plausibly be applied to anything within the field of consciousness.

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  Lying, Science, Fields

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• When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

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  People, History, Unconventional

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.

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  Greek, Bulls, Lectures

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• [Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.

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  Philosophy, Doors, Giving

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But every one has, in his day, been modern. And surely even modernity is a poor thing beside immortality. Since we must all die, is it not perhaps better to be a dead lion than a living dog?

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  Dog, Past, Lions

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.

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  Dresses, Sin, Conviction

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.

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  Drinking, Fighting, Making Love

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1916). “Vain Oblations”

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• For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement.

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  Soul, Doubt, Flesh

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1916). “Vain Oblations”

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• Some of the men and women who will not say in so many words the thing which is not, will deliberately give a false impression. They are not the servants of truth; they are the parasites of truth.

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  Truth, Men, Giving

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• ... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two very large birds with one stone: you satisfy precious curiosities, and you make them believe that they know as much about life as people who really know something. If college boys are solemnly advised to listen to lectures on prostitution, they will listen; and who is to blame if some time, in a less moral moment, they profit by their information?

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  Sex, Book, Believe

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• Successful socialism depends on the perfectibility of man. Unless all, or nearly all, men are high-minded and clear-sighted, it isbound to be a rotten failure in any but a physical sense. Even through it is altruism, socialism means materialism. You can guarantee the things of the body to every one, but you cannot guarantee the things of the spirit to every one; you can guarantee only that the opportunity to seek them shall not be denied to any one who chooses to seek them.

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  Mean, Successful, Opportunity

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• The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.

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  New Year, Fashion, Years

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• I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the best vocabularies; for when you lose an abstract term, you are apt to lose the thing it stands for.

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  Vocabulary, Culture, Pity

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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