Vulgar words in Cobwebs from an Empty Skull (Page 1)
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When to these evidences I add the confession that at first I did not myself observe anything extraordinary in my work, I think I need say no more: the discerning public will note the parallel, and my modesty be spared the necessity of making an ass of itself.
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An ass meeting a pair of horses, late one evening, said to them: "It is time all honest horses were in bed.
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This tale shows that this ass did not know everything.
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One evening a jackass, passing between a village and a hill, looked over the latter and saw the faint light of the rising moon.
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So he scrambled painfully up to the crest, and stood outlined against the broad disc of the unconscious luminary, more conspicuously a jackass than ever before.
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A man who was very much annoyed by the incursions of a lean ass belonging to his neighbour, resolved to compass the destruction of the invader.
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There wasn't any hay, but the wagon was useful for returning to his owner that unfortunate ass--who was too fat to walk.
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"The son of a jackass," shrieked a haughty mare to a mule who had offended her by expressing an opinion, "should cultivate the simple grace of intellectual humility."
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"The consort of a jackass and the mother of mules," retorted he, quietly, "should cultivate the simple thingamy of intellectual whatsitsname."
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"I say, you!" bawled a fat ox in a stall to a lusty young ass who was braying outside; "the like of that is not in good taste!"
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And this prickly blockhead had not the practical sagacity to get upon a wall seven feet and six inches high!
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PH.--The essential quality of an ass is asininity.
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This hobby was the purchase of jackasses.
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He had more jackasses than he had hairs on his head, and, as a rule, they were thinner.
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Jo's hobby was the selling of jackasses.