Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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 Fullerton Gerould
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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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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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.
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Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
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