Vulgar words in Recollections - With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of - Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and - another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in - facsimile (Page 1)
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He is now dead and no truth can hurt his feelings any more, but I think he was about as ignorant and self-satisfied an ass as I can remember to have encountered anywhere.
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It does not fall to the lot of every self-sufficient ass who finds himself returned to Parliament and who imagines that he can at once make a figure in that assembly to learn his place in so abrupt a fashion, but there is no gathering in the world in which a man so inevitably finds his proper level.
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If it occurs to any one of them anywhere to say: "Well, here is a cocky Englishman who is over here to make some money, but who is unable to resist the temptation to harangue us on our shortcomings"--just that minute you are damned--irrevocably damned.