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Letter "V" » vulgar
«I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell.»
Author: Alec Yuill Thornton
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vulgar
«Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.»
«Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.»
Author: Henry Beston
| About:
Learning
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banishment, mood, poetic, put away, reverence, vanishes, vulgar
«Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone»
«Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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intense, Point of, style, vulgar
«It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
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a million, a million times, bigness, mile, square, square mile, square miles, The Vice, thousand million, thousand times, vulgar
«I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Quotations
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amiss, applied, aptly, be amiss, discharged, discharges, discharging, hit-or-miss, insipid, proverb, reasonably, renders, Right or Wrong, vulgar
«I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.»
«I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.»
«It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Business
| Keywords:
dinner party, Parties, vulgar
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