Vulgar words in The Conflict (Page 1)
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Suddenly he threw down the hammer and said loudly: "A man that works is a damn fool.
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But Mr. Kelly was explaining to Martin Hastings what he meant when he said that there was "hell to pay": "That infernal little cuss, Victor Dorn," said he "made a speech in the Court House Square to-day.
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He gave names--amounts paid--the whole damn thing."
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"Too damn smart.
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There's two kinds of poor--those that are working hard and saving their money and getting up out of the dirt, and those that haven't got no spunk or get-up.
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He had known what a prejudiced ass Galland was, how unfit he was for the office of judge; but he had up to that time hidden the full truth from himself.
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"I'm not such an egotistical ass as to imagine a woman of your sort could be genuinely in love with a man of my sort," replied he.
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Their business--their source of revenue--had ceased to be through carrying elections, had become a matter of skill in keeping the people more or less evenly divided between the two "regular" parties, with an occasional fake third party to discourage and bring into contempt reform movers and to make the people say, "Well, bad as they are, at least the regulars aren't addle-headed, damn fools doing nothing except to make business bad."
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If you had asked either what Republican and Democrat meant he would have been as vague and unsatisfactory in his reply as would have been any of his followers bearing torch and oilcloth cape in political processions, with no hope of gain--beyond the exquisite pleasure of making a shouting ass of himself in the most public manner.
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"You'll sing a different song when you're as old as I am and have found out what a lot of damn fools the human race is."
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"I'm not so damn sure of it."
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Sawyer, a shrewd money maker, was an ass in other ways, was strongly seized of the itch for public office.
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But he was too 'cute for that, damn him.