Vulgar words in Concerning Animals and Other Matters (Page 1)
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As for the horse, whatever its admirers may say, it is just a great ass.
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And this thought points the way out of another contradictious puzzle, that which confronts my argument from the ears of an ass.
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There is no answer unless their function is to hear the bray of a fellow-ass.... One may object that that majestic sound is surely of force to impress itself without any aid from an external ear; but that is a vain argument built on the costermonger's moke--dreary exile from its fatherland.
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In those boundless solitudes, with nothing that eye can see or that common ear can hear to remind her that she is not the sole inhabitant of the universe, the wild ass "snuffeth up the wind in her desire," and lifting her windsails to the hot blast, hears, borne across miles of white sand and shimmering mirage, the joyful reverberations of that music which tells of old comrades and boon companions scouring the plain and kicking up their exultant heels.
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If there is an ass, it is a native of Abyssinia, and the Turkeys are Americans.
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A wild ass, though brought up from its birth in a stable, would make a very intractable costermonger's moke.