Vulgar words in The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 (Page 1)
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"I am an ass, my friend, a great ass, to write in this silly strain to you, but you must not be very angry, though I own now to a feeling of _having half insulted your kind serious ways by talking nonsense to them on paper_."
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It states the doctrine on which our rule should be based--remembered in Canada-- forgotten in South Africa--the true as against the bastard Imperialism.
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On another of the names originally suggested I may quote Smith himself, for when Dean Burgon's appointment was attacked in the House of Commons by me and others, Smith, approaching Lord Salisbury at a party, and engaging in conversation upon the matter, said that the reasons for appointing him were overwhelming, at which Lord Salisbury was greatly pleased; when Henry Smith went on: "No such Commission could possibly be complete without its buffoon."'
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Gladstone and Dizzy seem to cap one another in folly and in pretence, and I do not know which has made the greatest ass of himself.
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If, however, they wish only to consult him as a private individual, F.-M. the Duke of Wellington has no hesitation in saying that he does not care one twopenny damn what becomes of the ashes of Napoleon Buonaparte."'
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I sent for Hill, and got the _Daily News_ to damn the idea."