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Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Quotes

American - Writer | 1879 - 1944

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 Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Life Time Simple You Living Nothing

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

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Men Edge Altruism Always Get Fine

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 Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Good People Care Hands Will Take

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

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Life Simplicity Free Taste Left

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 Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Work Learning Ignorance Done Real

It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Poor Cause Which Lied Regularly

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

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Science Claim Lies Subject Method

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Woman Fashion Fat Purse Been Lean

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 Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Experience Thought End Logic Mastery

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

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Alien Manners Kind Test Literacy Us

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Originality Something Only Unfamiliar

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Privacy Essential Violations

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