As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years read more

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

Unto the pure all things are pure.

Unto the pure all things are pure.

We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict read more

We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.

Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.