Vulgar words in The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III (Page 1)
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"The devil damn your place and you baith!" reiterated Campbell.
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When "his father's spirit was in arms," it was not a time for the son to make love in.
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Since I left England (and it is not for all the usual term of transportation) I have scribbled to five hundred blockheads on business, etc., without difficulty, tho with no great pleasure; and yet, with the notion of addressing you a hundred times in my head, and always in my heart, I have not done what I ought to have done.
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I can only account for it on the same principle of tremulous anxiety with which one sometimes makes love to a beautiful woman of our own degree, with whom one is enamored in good earnest; whereas we attack a fresh-colored housemaid without (I speak, of course, of earlier times) any sentimental remorse or mitigation of our virtuous purpose.