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.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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.
people
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
life simplicity
life thetimes time
The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.
health mistakes life power happiness theend
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.
theend experience
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
thetimes time
Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.
man society
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.
work
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.
women men
The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
wealth
Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.
equality
All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.
privacy
Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.
tests manners
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