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Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a… — Joyce Cary
Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity. — Henry Watson Fowler
Fact is based upon vulgar matter. — Charles Olson
And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living. In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline of smoldering… — Don McLean
The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what… — Ralph Bakshi
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and… — Charles Caleb Colton
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can… — David Shi
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void. — Oscar Wilde
Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the… — Leigh Hunt
The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties… — Thomas Paine
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have… — Thomas Paine
A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one… — Epictetus
Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate his success. What… — Judith Regan
There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their… — Paul Gauguin
Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over… — Ayn Rand
I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths… — Auguste Rodin
When you have God come amongst you to support and sustain you, why grovel through crude vulgar entities? Avoid places where they bargain in terms… — Sathya Sai Baba
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth. — Theodore Roosevelt
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the… — Fanny Kemble
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar… — Fanny Kemble
Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption. — Georg Baselitz
A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd. — Jean de la Bruyere
Contrary to vulgar legend the lives of great ballerinas are not entirely given up to a few minutes of graceful movement every night followed by… — Gore Vidal

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