... 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?
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 Fullerton Gerould
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 Fullerton Gerould
The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould
The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould
men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.
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 t… - 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 t…
Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.
There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould
There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.
The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould
The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.
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 Fullerton Gerould
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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