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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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For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His cant be wrong whose life is in the right. – Alexander Pope

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Faith
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Alexander Pope
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. – Alexander Pope

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God
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and offrings, and a thankful strain. – Alexander Pope

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thanksgiving
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Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. – Herbert Marcuse

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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. – G. K. Chesterton

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My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. – Edward Gibbon

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Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parsons damn. – Thomas Hardy

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