Vulgar words in My Novel — Volume 10 (Page 1)
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Still, most of the Ten Commandments remain at the core of all the Pandects and Institutes that keep our hands off our neighbours' throats, wives, and pockets; still, every year shows that the parson's maxim--"non quieta movere "--is as prudent for the health of communities as when Apollo recommended his votaries not to rake up a fever by stirring the Lake Camarina; still, people, thank Heaven, decline to reside in parallelograms, and the surest token that we live under a free government is when we are governed by persons whom we have a full right to imply, by our censure and ridicule, are blockheads compared to ourselves!
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Was it consistent with that chivalric and soldierly spirit of honour which the frank nobleman affected, to make love to a woman in mere /ruse de guerre/?
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"If," said Dick Avenel to himself, as he returned fretfully homeward--"if a man like me, who has done so much for British industry and go-a-head principles, is to be catawampously champed up by a mercenary, selfish cormorant of a capitalist like that interloping blockhead in drab breeches, Tom Dyce, all I can say is, that the sooner this cursed old country goes to the dogs, the better pleased I shall be.
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mon cher/, do you think I am a blockhead?"
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"Oh, damn it," cried Spendquick, "but that's too bad,--employing you to get me to pay him!