Vulgar words in The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) (Page 1)
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Soon, if the tide of poeshie continues, I'll send you a whole lot to damn.
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The spirit--I don't mean the measure, I don't mean you fall into bastard cadences; what I mean is that they seem vacant and smoothed out, ironed, if you like.
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All my other women have been as ugly as sin, and like Falconet's horse (I have just been reading the anecdote in Lockhart), _mortes_ forbye.
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and can do any damn thing I like.
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Buridan's Ass!
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They are not at all like the king or his people, who are brown and very pretty; but these are black as negroes and as ugly as sin, poor souls, and in their own lands they live all the time at war and cook and eat men's flesh.
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The cattle are Jack, my horse, quite converted, my wife rides him now, and he is as steady as a doctor's cob; Tifaga Jack, a circus horse, my mother's piebald, bought from a passing circus; Belle's mare, now in childbed or next door, confound the slut!
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I was not there, I had ridden down the night before after dinner on my endless business, took a cup of tea in the mission like an ass, then took a cup of coffee like a fool at Haggard's, then fell into a discussion with the American Consul....
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You are to understand: if I take all this bother, it is not only from a sense of duty, or a love of meddling--damn the phrase, take your choice--but from a great affection for Mataafa.
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I think it is a good idea so to introduce my hero, being made love to by an episodic woman.
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makes more than 150 pages of my manuscript--damn this hair--and I only designed the book to run to about 200; but when you introduce the female sect, a book does run away with you.
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Hard to imagine any position more ridiculous; a week before he had been trying to rake up evidence against me by brow-beating and threatening a half-white interpreter; that very morning I had been writing most villainous attacks upon him for the Times; and we meet and smile, and--damn it!--like each other.
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I do my best to damn the man and drive him from these islands; but the weakness endures--I love him.
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The triple-headed ass at home, in his plenitude of ignorance, prefers to collect the taxes and scatter the Mataafas by force or the threat of force.
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Very amusing how the reviews pick out one story and damn the rest!
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In biography you have your little handful of facts, little bits of a puzzle, and you sit and think, and fit 'em together this way and that, and get up and throw 'em down, and say damn, and go out for a walk.
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True you are right, I was wrong; the author is not the whore but the libertine; and yet I shall let the passage stand.
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Ives_, is nothing; it is in no style in particular, a tissue of adventures, the central character not very well done, no philosophic pith under the yarn; and, in short, if people will read it, that's all I ask; and if they won't, damn them!
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I am in one of the humours when a man wonders how any one can be such an ass as to embrace the profession of letters, and not get apprenticed to a barber or keep a baked-potato stall.
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And I have no idea what I have said, and I have no idea what I ought to have said, and I am a total ass, but my heart is in the right place, and I am, my dear Henry James, yours, R. L. S. TO MARCEL SCHWOB _Vailima, Upolu, Samoa, July 7, 1894._ DEAR MR. MARCEL SCHWOB,--Thank you for having remembered me in my exile.
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(in a German cap, damn 'em!).
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It is beautifully said, beautifully and kindly felt; and I should be a churl indeed if I were not grateful, and an ass if I were not proud.