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«Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.»
«The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything -and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.»
«Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.»
«No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Vulgarity | Keywords: vulgar, vulgarity
«Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.»
«The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age»
«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 seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe»
«The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged and numerous senses could perceive. And particularly they studied the genius of each city and county, placing it under its mental deity. Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of and enslaved the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects; thus began Priesthood. Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales. And at length they pronounced that the Gods had ordered such things. Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast.»
«Take heed, be wary how you place your words;Talk like the vulgar sort of market menThat come to gather money for their corn.»
«Nicknames are vulgar. Only common people use them.»

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