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> [... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-fullerton-gerould/if-a-person-is-to-be-unconventional-he-must-be-amusing-or-he-is/)

[Katharine Fullerton Gerould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katharine-fullerton-gerould/)

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## More by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

> [When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-fullerton-gerould/when-did-the-word-temperament-come-into-fashion-with-us-perhaps-it/)

[Katharine Fullerton Gerould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katharine-fullerton-gerould/)

> [The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-fullerton-gerould/the-insidiousness-of-science-lies-in-its-claim-to-be-not-a-subject/)

[Katharine Fullerton Gerould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katharine-fullerton-gerould/)

> [... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-fullerton-gerould/if-a-person-is-to-be-unconventional-he-must-be-amusing-or-he-is/)

[Katharine Fullerton Gerould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katharine-fullerton-gerould/)

> [The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-fullerton-gerould/the-aristocracy-most-widely-developed-in-america-is-that-of-wealth/)

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> [There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-fullerton-gerould/there-are-only-three-things-worthwhile-fighting-drinking-and-making/)

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> [ \[Science\] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-fullerton-gerould/science-has-challenged-the-super-eminence-of-religion-it-has-turned/)

[Katharine Fullerton Gerould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katharine-fullerton-gerould/)

> [Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-fullerton-gerould/culture-means-a-long-receptivity-to-things-of-the-mind-and-the-spirit/)

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> [All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-fullerton-gerould/all-violations-of-essential-privacy-are-brutalizing/)

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> [I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-fullerton-gerould/i-know-exaggerators-of-both-kinds-people-whose-lies-are-only/)

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> [Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-fullerton-gerould/society-by-insisting-on-conventions-has-merely-insisted-on-certain/)

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> [ We put \[young children\] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-fullerton-gerould/we-put-young-children-into-kindergarten-where-their-reasoning-powers/)

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> [... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-fullerton-gerould/there-are-some-who-believing-that-all-is-for-the-best-in-the-best-of/)

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> [... it is one thing to sow your wild oats in talk, and quite another to live by your own kaleidoscopic paradoxes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-fullerton-gerould/it-is-one-thing-to-sow-your-wild-oats-in-talk-and-quite-another-to/)

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> [The indiscreet questioner - and by indiscreet questions I mean questions which it is not conceivably a man's duty either to the community or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-fullerton-gerould/the-indiscreet-questioner-and-by-indiscreet-questions-i-mean/)

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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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-fullerton-gerould/you-can-be-slum-born-and-slum-bred-and-still-achieve-something-worth/)

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