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Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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

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

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