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Quote by Lawrence Durrell
Its only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement

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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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. – Lawrence Durrell

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I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time – those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. – Lawrence Durrell

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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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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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