Vulgar words in Memoirs (Page 1)
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Now I can see that Voltaire and his followers were quite in the right in warring on terrible and immediate abuses which oppressed mankind; but I had learned from Spinoza to believe that every form of faith was good in its way or according to its mission or time, and that it was silly to ridicule Christianity because the tale of Balaam's ass was incredible.
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In those days the beggars and pimps and pickpockets were beyond all modern conception.
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The secret of my influence was that I always treated her with respect, and never made love or flirted.
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But I kept my independence and principles, and thundered away so fiercely for _immediate_ emancipation that I was confidentially informed that Mr. Seward once exclaimed in a rage, "Damn Leland and his magazine!"
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"Damn Jeff Davis!"