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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

quote by Henry Ward Beecher
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I could be content that we might procreate, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the most foolish act a wise man commits in all his life.

quote by Thomas Browne
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On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.

quote by Hu Shih
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Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.

quote by John Pearson
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Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

quote by Margaret Cavendish
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Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

quote by Henry Beston
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.

quote by Thomas Reid
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Four Epigrams in April

When a man has a lot of money
True friends are a rarity.

When a child hears profanity
He'll be cursing you surely!

Vulgar words destroy poetry
For they express no beauty.

Friendship is a masterpiece of art
A diligent work of the heart.

poem by Cynthia Buhain-Baello
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A Man Disturbed

Until his breath pleasure,
the hands touch deep.
Restraint,
like swallowed faded leafs.
Tremblingly.
Mistress flesh,
serpent gullet desire
Finger spread dreadfully,
the vulgar act
Velvet poison, shall pursue.
Extract precious juice

poem by Luca Menin
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Revival

Such a horrid thought appeared this eve
Whilst the lonesome raven perched in the tree
And his ghastly eyes burned hot upon me
I shiver and think “it cannot be”

Lurid as a summer day
Obscure as the chime of children at play
Vulgar like the sun in May

Dare I say
DarE I say

poem by L.W. Smith
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