Vulgar words in The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography (Page 1)
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Even a "tinker's curse" or "a tuppenny damn" would have seemed loquacious in him on such an occasion.
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I have not the slightest doubt now that they regarded me as a cheeky young ass who was trying to show off in regard to things of which he was totally ignorant and of which, needless to say, they were ignorant too, for, alas!
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CHAPTER XI A CLASSICAL EDUCATION Though I made such a hash of classical studies and was apparently so impermeable to Latin and Greek literature, I am not one of those people who are prepared to damn the Greek and Latin classics, either with faint praise or with a strenuous invective.