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Quote by Alexander Pope
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attemp

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. – Alexander Pope

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You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. – Alexander Pope

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Hmmm
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Alexander Pope
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. – Alexander Pope

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Business
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Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity
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Here is the piece. If you cant say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment. – Ernest Hemingway

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Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. – Chinese Proverb

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The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. – Author Unknown

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Television

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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