Vulgar words in Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 (Page 1)
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Like sailors who love their ship, and grumble at grub and grog, yet on shore will allow no word of disparagement to be said, so did these Athenians love their city, and still condemn its rulers--they exercised the laborer's right to damn the man who gives him work.
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She liked Comte first-rate, until he began to make love to her.
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One of the most distinguished clients of M. Arouet was Ninon de Lenclos, who had the felicity to be made love to by three generations of Frenchmen.
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Francois crossed swords with her in an encounter of wit, was worsted, but got even by making love to her; and later he made love to her daughter, a beautiful girl of about his own age.
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The books are not worth a damn--and are dear at that.
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When Speaker Cannon says the books are not worth a damn, he does not necessarily state a fact about the books: he merely states a fact about himself--that is, he gives his opinion.
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This is the Oxford way of expressing the Illinois formula, "Your books are not worth a damn--and are dear at that."
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He is as ugly as sin, long-nosed, queer-mouthed, and with uncouth and somewhat rustic ways, though his courteous manner corresponds very well with such an exterior.