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

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