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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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Teach me to feel anothers woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me. – 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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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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My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. – Edward Gibbon

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It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon. – Alice James

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