Vulgar words in A Dominie in Doubt (Page 1)
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"As a work on education," I said deliberately, "the _Log_ isn't worth a damn."
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They aren't really swear-words; the world has grown out of being shocked at a 'damn,' but I am willing to admit that there are more damns and hells than is usual.
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I know an art critic in London, and, believe me, the poor devil lives in terror lest he should damn the work of a new Augustus John.
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One man wrote me from Croydon:-- "Dear Sir,--Are you a fool or merely a silly ass?"
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He never replied to that, and I suppose that now he goes about telling his friends that I am a fool, a silly ass, and a typical Scot.
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"I did," she blurted out nervously; "I said you were just a silly ass."
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If a father is continually hearing his daughter say: "Mr. Neill says this; Mr. Neill says that," I have every sympathy with him when he growls: "Damn this Neill blighter!"
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"God damn!" he said sweetly.
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He has no fixed beliefs about methods of study; he himself learns by doing, and to-morrow will be cheerfully willing to scrap the method he is using to-day.