We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

Jules Verne

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When you know you are of worth, you don’t have to raise your voice, you don’t have to become rude, you don’t have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn’t have to protest.

Maya Angelou

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Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Coco Chanel

Luxury Opposite People Poverty

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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Socrates

Based Conception Emotional Illusion

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I don't do any vulgar movements.

Elvis Presley

Any Movements Vulgar Any

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Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit

Doris Day

Vulgarity Imagination Succumb Explicit

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I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.

H. P. Lovecraft

Am Anything Down Dream

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Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

Gustave Flaubert

Animal Beautiful Created Excess

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In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Cannot Crude Extinguish Humor

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Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

Isaac Newton

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...we ought to think with the learned, and speak with the vulgar.

George Berkeley

We ought Learned Vulgar

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It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.

Lauren Bacall

Absolutely Anything Commercially Inappropriate

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Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

Robert Browning

Aim Better Failed God

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Happiness Insipid Rarest Seems

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If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

Roger Ebert

Been Comedy Drop Gate

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It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

Roger Ebert

Certain Funny Genius Must

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How the vulgar loved portents, prodigies and the untoward. Only the religious knew how embarrassing they could be - and quite beside the point.

Alice Thomas Ellis

Vulgar Portents Prodiies Religious

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We must categorize and simplify in order to comprehend. But the reduction of complexity entails a great danger, since the line between enlightening epitome and vulgarized distortion is so fine.

Stephen Jay Gould

Must categorized Simplify Comprehend The reduction

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You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob

William Makepeace Thackeray

You Judge Snobs Shows

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The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

William Inge

Vulgar Mind Mistakes Important

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Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

Jeanne Moreau

Children Beautiful Imbeciles Vulgar

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Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

Juvenal

Luck Vulgarity Position Beholders

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Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.

Mignon McLaughlin

Money Absence Coarse Vulgar

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We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

Jules Verne

When you know you are of worth, you don’t have to raise your voice, you don’t have to become rude, you don’t have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn’t have to protest.

Maya Angelou

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Coco Chanel

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Socrates

I don't do any vulgar movements.

Elvis Presley

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit

Doris Day

I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.

H. P. Lovecraft

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

Gustave Flaubert

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

Isaac Newton

...we ought to think with the learned, and speak with the vulgar.

George Berkeley

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.

Lauren Bacall

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

Robert Browning

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Logan Pearsall Smith

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert

How the vulgar loved portents, prodigies and the untoward. Only the religious knew how embarrassing they could be - and quite beside the point.

Alice Thomas Ellis

We must categorize and simplify in order to comprehend. But the reduction of complexity entails a great danger, since the line between enlightening epitome and vulgarized distortion is so fine.

Stephen Jay Gould

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob

William Makepeace Thackeray

The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

William Inge

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

Jeanne Moreau

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

Juvenal

Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.

Mignon McLaughlin

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