Vulgar words in Confessions of a Young Man (Page 1)
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Nor am I exaggerating when I say I think that I might equally have been a Pharaoh, an ostler, a pimp, an archbishop, and that in the fulfilment of the duties of each a certain measure of success would have been mine.
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And we succeeded very well, as indeed all young men do who waltz perfectly and avoid making love to the wrong woman.
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Well, a translator who would translate _quand le cheval_, etc., by _quand le vin_, etc., is an ass, and does not know his business.
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You can't have a club-room without mahogany tables, you can't have mahogany tables without magazines--_Longman's_, with a serial by Rider Haggard, the _Nineteenth Century_, with an article, "The Rehabilitation of the Pimp in Modern Society," by W. E. Gladstone--a dulness that's a purge to good spirits, an aperient to enthusiasm; in a word, a dulness that's worth a thousand a year.
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To represent in a novel a girl proposing marriage to a man would be deemed unnatural, but nothing is more common; there are few young men who have not received at least a dozen offers, nay, more; it is characteristic, it has become instinctive for girls to choose, and they prefer men not to make love to them; and every young man who knows his business avoids making advances, knowing well that it will only put the girl off.
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Damn it!
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The man whose biography you are writing is no better than a pimp.
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Then he is not like me; I have never been a pimp, and I don't think I would be if I could.
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I love the abnormal, and there is certainly something strangely grotesque in the life of a pimp.