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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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

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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