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.

Quote by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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

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

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without...

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without...

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

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

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting...

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting...

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than...

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than...

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you...

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you...

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a...

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a...

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.