To Oppose Is to Maintain
To oppose something is to maintain it.
They say here "all roads lead to Mishnory." To be sure, if you turn your back on Mishnory and walk away from it, you are still on the Mishnory road. To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.
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Context: From Estraven's private notes while living in the city of Mishnory.
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Source: Chapter 11, "Soliloquies in Mishnory"