Vulgar words in Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875) (Page 1)
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To James Gillis, in his cabin on Jackass Hill, Tuolumne Co., California: ELMIRA, N.Y. Jan. 26, '70.
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He never left Jackass Hill.
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I have no time to turn round, a young lady visitor (schoolmate of Livy's) is dying in the house of typhoid fever (parents are in South Carolina) and the premises are full of nurses and doctors and we are all fagged out.
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I cannot conceive of a man being such a hopeless ass (after serving as a legislative reporter, too) as to imagine that I or any other literary man in his senses would consent to chew over old stuff that had already been in print.
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MY DEAR OLD JOE,-I knew you would be likely to graduate into an ass if I came away; and so you have-if you have stopped smoking.
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Thomas Beecher's saying "Damn that Atwater," or my saying "I wish Atwater was three hundred million miles in--!"
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You see, the thing that gravels her is that I am so persistently glorified as a mere buffoon, as if that entirely covered my case-which she denies with venom.