Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity,

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

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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

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon. – Alice James

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