No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.


Modes and Morals (ed. 1920)

Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes

No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on...

No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on...

No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on...

No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on...