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We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were invented for semi-imbeciles in Italian slums; or we send them to outdoor schools and give them prizes for sleeping.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Children, School, Sleep

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Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Marriage, Girl, Falling In Love

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

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It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all would be on trial. Until you had definitely experienced all the human situations with them, you would have no means of knowing how, in any given situation, they would behave. They might conform about evening-dress, and throw plates between courses; they might be charming to your friends, and ask the waiter to sit down and finish dinner with you. Or they might in all things, little and big, be irreproachable. The point is that you would never know.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Marriage, Mean, Knowing

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You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud of it. If one had a right to be proud of anything, it would be of a continued decent tradition back of one.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Stupid, Pride, Proud

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

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... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better than to-day, may think that if culture is a good thing we shall infallibly be found to have more of it that we had a generation since; and that if we can be shown not to have more of it, it can be shown not to be worth seeking.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Believe, Thinking, Progress

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What passes for an original opinion is, generally, merely an original phrase. Old lamps for new - yes; but it is always the same oil in the lamp.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Oil, Lamps, Phrases

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

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Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious?

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Majority, Admitting, Minorities

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

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I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Vegetarianism, Answers, Socialist

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

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When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Fashion, Artist, Temperament

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

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Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Believe, Men, Giving

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

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Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Truth, People, Despise

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1916). “Vain Oblations”

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The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Mistake, Believe, Kind

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

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All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Aquariums, Essentials, Privacy

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

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

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

May, Marry Me, Social

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.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Fall, Men, Perfect

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

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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

Educational, Hands, People

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

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You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Guilt, Faults, Bears

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On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Hate, Lying, People

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

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if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Next, Language, Individual

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

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I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Lying, People, Adjectives

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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Civilization, Taste, Nasty

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

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Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Dresses, Sin, Conviction

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

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... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

America, Car, Desire

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

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Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Stupid, Men, Fine

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

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Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

People, Receiving, Compliment

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

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Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Born: February 6, 1879
Died: July 27, 1944
Occupation: Writer
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