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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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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man. – Alexander Pope

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Order is Heavens first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king. – Alexander Pope

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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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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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