Vulgar words in Father Payne (Page 1)
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"Well," I said, "it's rather a large question--but I used to think, both at school and at Oxford, that many of the men who were rather disapproved of, that did quite bad things, and tried experiments, and knocked up against nastiness of various kinds, but who were brave in their way and kind, and not mean or spiteful or fault-finding, were more the sort of people that the force--or whatever it is, behind the world--was trying to produce than many of the virtuous people.
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"And I, on the contrary," said Father Payne, "think that a man who always keeps his friends is almost always an ass!"
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I could have made love to her with the best will in the world!
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He objected to something I said as 'vague,' and I was ass enough to answer him.
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I know what love means to me, and I know, how I want to make love; and the same sort of thing is happening to lovers all the world over, though they don't all make love in the same way.
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That seems to me simply degrading: and then the portentous ass, whose review I read, says that if the editor had done nothing else, he is sure of an honoured place for ever in the hierarchy of impeccable critics!
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'The weakness of life,' says this pompous ass, 'is that it deviates from art!'
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I won't have the hussy on my horse.