Vulgar words in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 (Page 1)

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Blockheads who were not troubled with an idea once a fortnight, and who could neither write nor speak their mother English decently, had undertaken to expound things which never happened in dialects which nobody understood.

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I promise to cease all intercourse with a blasphemous blockhead named John M. Riley, who has been the human cause of my downfall.

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Why, to puncture the skin of blockheads and blasphemers like you, and suck the last drop of blood from their veins.

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We do not admit, that, because a man has published a volume or a picture, he has published himself, excommunicated his soul from the sanctuary of privacy, and made his life as common as a tavern-threshold to every blockhead in the parish,--or that any Pharisee who kept carefully to windward of his virtues, out of the way of infection, has thereby earned the right to mismoralize his failings after he is dumbly defenceless.

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