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• We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Father, Ignorance

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• Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Flower, Eye

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• Every young woman should dress well, that is, neatly, tastefully, modestly, whether she be rich or poor. Conspicuous dressing is vulgar. True refinement avoids anything showy and flashy: it never dresses better than it can afford, and yet it is always well dressed, even in simple muslin or plain calico.

  J.R. Miller

  Simple, Rich Or Poor, Dresses

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• To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer this suggestion? First, make the commitment to erase such words from your vocabulary. Next, if you slip and say a swear word or a substitute word, mentally reconstruct the sentence without the vulgarity or substitute word and repeat the new sentence aloud. Eventually you will develop a non-vulgar speech habit.

  L. Tom Perry

  Commitment, Vocabulary, Practice

  "Thy Speech Reveals Thee". L. Tom Perry's speech at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. August 1986.

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• So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

  Edmund Waller

  Should, Mould, Productions

  Edmund Waller (1722). “Poems ... Fifth edition, with several additions never before printed”, p.139

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• The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

  William Hazlitt

  Ignorance, Insolence, Treats

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.118

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• I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily in his Practize, and that 'twas beleeved by the vulgar that he was crack-brained.

  John Aubrey

  Blood, Cracks, Heard

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• Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Writing

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.96, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life.

  Thomas Browne

  Wise, Sex, Men

  1634-5 Religio Medici (published 1643), pt.2, section 9.

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• I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Luck, Literature, Want

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.1124, Book House

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• Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me.

  Grace Hartigan

  Beautiful, Challenges, Transformation

  "Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2008.

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• Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.

  Francois Arago

  Eye, Science, Genius

  François Arago (1859). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men: The history of my youth, an autobiography of Francis Arago.Bailly.Herschel.Laplace.Joseph Fourier.-ser. 2 Carnot.Malus.Fresnel.Thomas Young.James Watt”, p.412

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• I am not used to doing naked shoots but when you trust the photographer and the crew, you know it won't be vulgar.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Naked, Photographer, Used

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• The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity'
  of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The subject,' says one handbook for amateur photographers, 'must be simple, free of useless accessories; this is called the Search for Unity.

  Roland Barthes

  Simple, Unity, Accessories

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• Devotion as an act is vulgar. Devotion as a way of life is wonderful. If you are a great devotee, it is ugly. If you are devout, it is beautiful.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Ugly

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• Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.

  Diana Vreeland

  Boring, Fine, Please

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• Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great.

  Thomas Gray

  Fate, Limits

  'The Progress of Poesy' (1757) l. 122

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• The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.

  Stan Brakhage

  Capacity

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the merely vulgar seem commonplace.

  Pamela Anderson

  Funny, Rocks, Sailing

  Pamela Anderson (2008). “Star Struck”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV.

  Mike Judge

  Mtv, People, Missing

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• A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

  Aristotle

  Men, Hands, Democracy

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• It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Tasks, Advertising, Easy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.210

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• It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or to make the rifles go off, that the dream is declining, and turning into the nightmare, which belongs to the poorest and most vulgar class of dreams.

  Isak Dinesen

  Dream, Horse, Class

  Isak Dinesen (2001). “Out of Africa”, p.81, Penguin UK

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• To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.

  Ray Bradbury

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

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• Hateful, blasphemous, prejudiced, vulgar, rude, or ignorant remarks are the music of a free society, and the relentless patter of idiots is how we know we're in one. When all the words in our public conversation are fair, good, and true, it's time to make a run for the fence.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Running, Rude, Ignorant

  "What Is Your Dangerous Idea?". Book by John Brockman (p. 43), 2007.

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