Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
From Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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.
It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.
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.
Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
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