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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.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Stars, Men, World

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

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Guilt, Faults, Bears

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Aquariums, Essentials, Privacy

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

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• democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  People, Democracy, Guarantees

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• Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Mean, Long, Mind

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

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• Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Men, People, Comfort

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

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• Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Individual, Dare, Individual Freedom

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

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• The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  America, Aristocracy, Wealth

  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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Vocabulary, Culture, Pity

  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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