Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerouldwas an American writer and essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
burden chiefly credited falls falsehood less men perfect veracity women
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.
themselves ultimately whom
Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
created expressly ideal irish-poet lean purse thin
No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
irish-poet
It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.
irish-poet lies-and-lying science
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
both learning suspicion work
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.
advance civilization merely nicer rejecting
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
human mastery salvation social taking
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.
among literacy
Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.
fine men possession
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
acquired left
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
good illiteracy illiterate largely nowadays reproach
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.
drawback life living positively
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.