Vulgar words in Mertvye dushi. English (Page 1)
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Gogol, who had meant to do a service to Russia and not to heap ridicule upon her, took the criticisms of the Slavophiles to heart; and he palliated his critics by promising to bring about in the succeeding parts of his novel the redemption of Chichikov and the other "knaves and blockheads."
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Rather would I ask such a reader to suppose that before him there stands a man of incomparably inferior enlightenment and schooling--a rude country bumpkin whose life, throughout, has been passed in retirement--a bumpkin to whom it is necessary to explain each circumstance in detail, while never forgetting to be as simple of speech as though he were a child, and at every step there were a danger of employing terms beyond his understanding.
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'Tis good advice I'm giving you, you blockhead.
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"Yes, but with the living we have nothing to do, damn it!
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"What a blockhead of a creature!" said Chichikov to himself, for he was beginning to lose patience.
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"Ah, you blockhead!" he went on to Selifan.
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"Very well," said Nozdrev, "though, damn it, I do not like fellows who lose their heads."
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"But I do not mean to buy the colt, damn him!"
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"Yes, damn it!
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He is a captain in the army, damn him, and all day he does nothing but call me 'dear uncle,' and kiss my hand, and express sympathy until I am forced to stop my ears.
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Any day he could knock you up a britchka such as you could not procure even in Moscow.
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"Blockhead!" exclaimed Chichikov.
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Of these, a member of the almost extinct tribe of intelligent staff officers on the retired list once summed up Tientietnikov in the phrase, "He is an absolute blockhead;" while a General who resided ten versts away was heard to remark that "he is a young man who, though not exactly a fool, has at least too much crowded into his head.
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What a jackass!"
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"A jackass, your Excellency?"
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"The old jackass!
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Don't be angry with me, but I must say that, though your uncle, he is also a jackass."
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Petrushka is a blockhead, an idiot.
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Damn it, bring the net to land, will you!"