Vulgar words in Madame Bovary (Page 1)

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Then many things hidden within him came out; he learnt couplets by heart and sang them to his boon companions, became enthusiastic about Beranger, learnt how to make punch, and, finally, how to make love.

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Here we are on the confines of Normandy, Picardy, and the Ile-de-France, a bastard land whose language is without accent and its landscape is without character.

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They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and rosaries who constantly drone into our ears 'Duty, duty!'

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It, is the quarter for theatres, public-houses, and whores.

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"At Madame Bovary's, you're not making love to-" "To whom?"

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confounded ass!"

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