Fullerton

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    ... it is easier for a camel to pass through the needle’s eye than for anything really chic to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
    —Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)

    Each man’s private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess ...
    —Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)

    The prince in disguise makes the most charming beggar in the world, no doubt; but that is because—as all fairy-tales from the beginning of time have taught us—the prince wears his rags as if they were purple. And, to do that, he not only must once have worn purple, but must never forget the purple that he has worn. And to the argument that all cannot wear purple, I can ... only reply that that seems to me to be no reason why all should wear rags.
    —Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)