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Quote by William Nazlitt
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common - William Nazlit

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common – William Nazlitt

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

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