A Quote by Miguel de Cervantes

Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Ignorant Vulgar Whoever

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Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish - Novelist
September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616

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Lydia M. Child

Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.

Emily Post

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Christopher Hitchens

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Epictetus

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Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

Oscar Wilde

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John Ruskin

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

George Gilder

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Daniel Gilbert

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

Edmund Waller

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

Samuel Beckett

All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.

Jonathan Swift

Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly life; and whoever recognises the worldly life, the trials and tribulations (of life) become slight for him.