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Quote by John Ruskin
The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintell

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

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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? – John Ruskin

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. – John Ruskin

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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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Here is the piece. If you cant say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment. – Ernest Hemingway

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