Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentlema

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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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

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. – E. M. Forster

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. – Edward Gibbon

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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