William Hazlitt Quote

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.


Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son (ed. 1839)


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.

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.

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.

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.