A Quote by Alexander Pope
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.
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We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the heart, which found its reward in the doing, craving neither the flattery of vulgar eyes nor the gold of vulgar men.
Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.
In some respects, the video-game business is a lot like the razor business, which follows a simple model: Give away the razor, gouge 'em on the price of the blades.
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Imagine blocks and blocks of no cocaine, blocks with no gun play.
My mind is in another planet behind the blocks. Sometimes I'm up in the blocks, and I'm like, 'What am I doing here?' I'm just not trying to think too much.
Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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