Vulgar words in An Open Letter on Translating (Page 1)
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Returning to the issue at hand, if your Papist wishes to make a great fuss about the word "alone" (sola), say this to him: "Dr. Martin Luther will have it so and he says that a papist and an ass are the same thing."
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We, too, are going to be proud and brag with these blockheads; and just as St. Paul brags against his madly raving saints, I will brag over these asses of mine!
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And there are brazen idiots among them who have never learned their own art of sophistry--like Dr. Schmidt and Snot-Nose, and such like them.
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An ass truly does not have to sing much as he is already known for his ears.
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I have learned what an art and job translating is by experience, so I will not tolerate some papal ass or mule as my critic, or judge.