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.
From Katharine Elizabeth 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.
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.
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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.
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.
All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
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