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

Quote by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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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.

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...

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

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...

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will...

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will...

Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to...

Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to...

Too many people in America believe that if you are pro-choice that means pro-abortion. It...

Too many people in America believe that if you are pro-choice that means pro-abortion. It...

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in...

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in...

Its hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation...

Its hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation...

We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop...

We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop...

Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics...

Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics...

Today's public opinion, though it may appear as light as air, may be tomorrow's legislation-for...

Today's public opinion, though it may appear as light as air, may be tomorrow's legislation-for...

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse...

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse...

That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those...

That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those...