Vulgar words in Without Prejudice (Page 1)
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These blockheads form the electorate and we submit to their will.
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But putting aside _claques_, it remains true that an audience will often heartily enjoy what a critic will heartily damn--sometimes in half a dozen papers, your capable critic being like a six-barrelled revolver.
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I have already suggested that Wellington's "twopenny damn" be replaced by "I don't care a double-blank domino."
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One can enjoy the sparkle of wit and the rich halo of comedy playing around situations unaffectedly "improper"; even the farces of the Palais Royal amuse with the broad foolery of their _esprit gaulois_; but the English endeavour to make the best of both worlds, the English author who combines the prude and the pimp--for these one can have nothing but contempt.
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To-day I myself saw a carnival procession in the village piazza--a veritable survival of the Middle Ages; a triumphal car wreathed in flowers, driven by masquerading mummers and surrounded by Pierrots and peasant buffoons, a thoroughly naïve and primitive bit of religion.
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The men make love or profess hate, repudiate their wives, or cut off their sons with shillings, all with the air of its happening for the first time, and wholly devoid of that sense of the ridiculous which they could not help feeling if they had been accustomed themselves to read novels and sit in stalls.