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

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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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An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded. – Alexander Pope

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An honest mans the noblest work of God. – Alexander Pope

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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. – Alexander Pope

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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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Its only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness. – Lawrence Durrell

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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. – John Ruskin

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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. – William Cowper

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