All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.
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Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
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Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.
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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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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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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.
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Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.
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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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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.
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