One man's vulgarity is another's lyric.
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Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971).John Marshall Harlan
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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
John Ruskin
Liberal education is liberation from vulgarity. The Greeks had a beautiful word for “vulgarity”; they called it apeirokalia, lack of experience in things beautiful. Liberal education supplies us with experience in things beautiful.
Leo Strauss
I hand him a lyric and get out of his way.
Oscar Hammerstein
Celibacy is the essence of vulgarity.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm.
Cyril Connolly
Harlan, John Marshall, II
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