I have always, privately and ...

I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the best vocabularies; for when you lose an abstract term, you are apt to lose the thing it stands for.
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 Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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 Katharine Fullerton Gerould
... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.
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You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud of it. If one had a right to be proud of anything, it would be of a continued decent tradition back of one.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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 Katharine Fullerton Gerould
men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.
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 Katharine Fullerton Gerould