What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to re…

William Hazlitt
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What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is. ✨ William Hazlitt (1839). Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son, p.244
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What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is. ✨ William Hazlitt (1839). Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son, p.244

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