Vulgar words in Obiter Dicta (Page 1)
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He is always a humourist, not unfrequently a writer of burlesque, and occasionally a buffoon.
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As likely as not he will call you a blockhead, and tell you to close your wide mouth and cease shrieking.
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Mrs. Carlyle had her troubles and her sorrows, as have most women who live under the same roof with a man of creative genius; but of one thing we may be quite sure, that she would have been the first, to use her own expressive language, to require God 'particularly to damn' her impertinent sympathizers.
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Students of geometry, who have pushed their researches into that fascinating science so far as the fifth proposition of the first book, commonly called the _Pons Asinorum_ (though now that so many ladies read Euclid, it ought, in common justice to them, to be at least sometimes called the _Pons Asinarum_), will agree that though it may be more difficult to prove that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal, and that if the equal sides be produced, the angles on the other side of the base shall be equal, than it was to describe an equilateral triangle on a given finite straight line; yet no one but an ass would say that the fifth proposition was one whit less intelligible than the first.
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It used to be thought a sufficient explanation to say either that the man was an ass or that it was all those Ritualists.
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But gradually it became apparent that the pervert was not always an ass, and that the Ritualists had nothing whatever to do with it.