Vulgar words in The Idiot (Page 1)

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ass x 3
buffoon x 1
damn x 4
            

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I was short and abominably dressed, and stood and stared in her face and never said a word, because I was shy, like an ass!

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"Out with it then, damn it!

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Then I told the whole three years' story of my life, and the history of a poor peasant girl-" "Oh, damn the peasant girl!

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"Are you going to cross my path for ever, damn you!" cried Gania; and, loosening his hold on Varia, he slapped the prince's face with all his force.

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All this was no doubt extremely coarse, and moreover it was premeditated, but after all Ferdishenko had persuaded everyone to accept him as a buffoon.

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Oh-DAMN the thing!"

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But, to prove that this time I was speaking absolutely seriously, and especially to prove this to the prince (for you, prince, have interested me exceedingly, and I swear to you that I am not quite such an ass as I like to appear sometimes, although I am rather an ass, I admit), and-well, ladies and gentlemen, will you allow me to put just one more question to the prince, out of pure curiosity?

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