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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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Nature and natures laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! – Alexander Pope

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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly! – 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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Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parsons damn. – Thomas Hardy

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