Vulgar words in Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship (Page 1)

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ass x 2
damn x 1
fag x 1
ugly as sin x 1
            

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He was as happy in it, apparently, as a man could be in anything here below, and he enjoyed to the last drop the many cups of kindness pressed to his lips in parting; though I believe these farewells, at a time when he was already fagged with work and excitement, were notably harmful to him, and helped to hasten his end.

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Yet when their chief asked me how I got on with Hawthorne, and I began to say that he was very shy and I was rather shy, and the king of Bohemia took his pipe out to break in upon me with "Oh, a couple of shysters!" and the rest laughed, I was abashed all they could have wished, and was not restored to myself till one of them said that the thought of Boston made him as ugly as sin; then I began to hope again that men who took themselves so seriously as that need not be taken very seriously by me.

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"Damn!" he said, and no more.

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"Oh, because I'm such an ass--such a bi-ass."

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