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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.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  People, History, Unconventional

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

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

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Soul, Doubt, Flesh

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1916). “Vain Oblations”

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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 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?

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Dog, Past, Lions

  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.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Philosophy, Doors, 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?

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Sex, Believe, Book

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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.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Greek, Leopards, Bulls

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

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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.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Book, Asparagus, Dollars

  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.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Lying, Science, Fields

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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.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Mean, Successful, Men

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