Vulgar words in George Bernard Shaw (Page 1)
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The true Puritan is not squeamish: the true Puritan is free to say "Damn it!"
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But the Catholic Elizabethan was free (on passing provocation) to say "Damn it all!"
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Up to this point of his life indeed hardly anyone would have dreamed of calling him a Puritan; he was called sometimes an anarchist, sometimes a buffoon, sometimes (by the more discerning stupid people) a prig.
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As Christ expressed how great a man can be humble and humane, Cæsar may have expressed how great a man can be frigid and flippant.
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Perhaps the irony in the situation is this: that all the crowds are acclaiming him as the blasting and hypercritical buffoon, while he himself is seriously rallying his synthetic power, and with a grave face telling himself that it is time he had a faith to preach.