If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
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Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
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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, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.
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My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.
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A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?
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Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.
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Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
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Fishing: The art of casting, trolling, jigging, or spinning while freezing, sweating, swatting and swearing.
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It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
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A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
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'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
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By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
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Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
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Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.
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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
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Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
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Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
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I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the f word.
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Swearing is like any other music...If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...
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There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
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Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.
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Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
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Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.
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