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• ... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the…
• There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and…
• Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
• Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do…
• You can bear anything if it is not your fault.
• Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is…
• Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.
• Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have…
• One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional…
• Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
• No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin…

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