Vulgar words in Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn (Page 1)
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Why should not only the novel writers but all the poets make love the principal subject of their work?
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The first was drink--because drink often caused a man to lose control of his temper; the second was another man's wife--repeatedly the reader is warned never to make love to another man's wife; and the third was thieves--men who would pretend friendship for the purpose of killing and stealing, The man who could keep constant watch over himself and his surroundings was, of course, likely to have the longest life.
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"Do not," he says, "show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it; nor complain about it, for malice always aims where weakness can be injured.... Never disclose the source of mortification or of joy, if you wish the one to cease, the other to endure."
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They wrote about the young men and young girls working on the farms, about the way they quarrelled or rejoiced or made love, about their dances and their songs, about their religious festivals and their sacrifices to the gods at the parish temple.