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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.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  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.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  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.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  May, Marry Me, Social

  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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• 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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• 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.

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  Believe, Men, Giving

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

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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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• ... 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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• 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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• 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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• You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Guilt, Faults, Bears

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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.

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  Marriage, Mean, Knowing

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• ... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by which society has assured itself that, if it must go to sleep, it will at least sleep in a comfortable chair.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Sleep, Littles, Doe

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

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• The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a man cannot be said to be"on the side of the stars" at all, unless he makes refusals.

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  Stars, Men, World

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

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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.

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  Believe, Thinking, Progress

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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.

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  Marriage, Girl, Falling In Love

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ... 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.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Mistake, Simplicity, Great Men

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• The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Lying, Claims, Method

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