Vulgar words in Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) (Page 1)
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So, at a single sitting I began and finished a revision which I had supposed would occupy 3 or 4. days and leave me mentally and physically fagged out at the end.
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You have described a callow fool, a self-sufficient ass, a mere human tumble-bug.... imagining that he is remodeling the world and is entirely capable of doing it right.
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I wish that old ass of a private secretary hadn't taken me for George Francis Train.
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The title which he first chose for it, "Balaam's Ass," was properly in keeping with the general scheme.
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My wife won't have "Balaam's Ass"; therefore I call the piece "Cap'n Simon Wheeler, The Amateur Detective."
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MY DEAR HOWELLS,-We arrived here night before last, pretty well fagged: an 8-hour pull from Rome to Florence; a rest there of a day and two nights; then 5 1/2 hours to Bologna; one night's rest; then from noon to 10:30 p.m. carried us to Trent, in the Austrian Tyrol, where the confounded hotel had not received our message, and so at that miserable hour, in that snowy region, the tribe had to shiver together in fireless rooms while beds were prepared and warmed, then up at 6 in the morning and a noble view of snow-peaks glittering in the rich light of a full moon while the hotel-devils lazily deranged a breakfast for us in the dreary gloom of blinking candles; then a solid 12 hours pull through the loveliest snow ranges and snow-draped forest-and at 7 p.m. we hauled up, in drizzle and fog, at the domicile which had been engaged for us ten months before.
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Say-a friend of mine wants to write a play with me, I to furnish the broad-comedy cuss.
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If, when you shall have finished, the reader shall say, "The man is an ass, but I really don't know whether he knows it or not," your work will be a triumph.
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Paragraph from some indignant Englishman in the Pall Mall Gazette who pays me the vast compliment of gravely rebuking some imaginary ass who has set me up in the neighborhood of Rabelais; 3.
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A life of don't-care-a-damn in a boarding house is what I have asked for in many a secret prayer.
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You can read, if you want to, but you don't read worth a damn.
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And when I get fagged out, I lie abed a couple of days and read and smoke, and then go it again for 6 or 7 days.
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Damn it, a body can't think of everything; but a woman thinks you can.
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But you couldn't read worth a damn a few years ago.