Vulgar words in Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O (Page 1)
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An error long provided, that if a vessel, in violation of neutrality, should escape to commit its ravages upon the sea, and should once secure the protection of a commission from the offending belligerent, that that was an end of it, and all the nations of the world must bow their heads before these bastard flags of belligerency.
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Mere man has always treated me with exemplary fairness, and I certainly have never maintained that the blockhead majority is entirely composed of men; neither have I ever insinuated that it is man that makes all the misery.
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I never say an actor's good, I always damn a play; I always croak, and a single joke I have, which is to say: That I am the star, and the manager bold, And the leading and juvenile man And the comedy pet, and the pert soubrette, And the boss of the box-sheet plan."
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"And de boat," continued Johnson, "was to strike a snag and smash to pieces, and eberybody go into de water, who would you save?"
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and de boat strike a snag?"