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Henry Codman Potter
: We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity.
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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
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Oscar Wilde :
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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
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Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless.
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Lady, it rose below vulgarity.
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.
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A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common
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Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
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Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.
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If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent -- a character in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue.
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We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity.
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