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More Coarseness Quotes

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• America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people. — Lord Byron
• Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material,… — Clement of Alexandria
• What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity… — Lord Byron
• That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that… — Frederick Jackson Turner
• I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the… — Antonin Scalia
• Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in… — Ross Douthat
• We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter,… — Spencer W. Kimball
• We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes… — Max Nordau
• Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. — E. M. Forster
• ...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners... — Nikolai Gogol
• To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have… — Charlotte Bronte

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