The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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It lost ground from contempt more than from hatred; and was rather jeered at as an ass, than dreaded as a lion.

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As the sage said, who was to be beheaded if he could not in a year teach the king's ass to speak--what might not happen in a year; the king might die, the ass might die, or he might die--any way there was so much gained: and Averil, for the time, felt as light-hearted as if Mrs. Pugh had vanished into empty air.

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He, the sensible man of the family, not only to be such an egregious ass, but to have made such a fool of himself!

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I was mad that day, and I want to satisfy my mind whether I think the same now I am sane, and if I do, I shall have enough to do to make her forget the winter when I made myself such an ass.

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Aversion to singularity Avoid putting our interests in competition with our duty Catholic must content himself with the decisions of others Disgusted with the idle trifling of a convent Dissembler, though, in fact, I was only courteous Ever appearing to feel as little for others as herself Flattery, or rather condescension, is not always a vice Hopes, in which self-love was by no means a loser I did not fear punishment, but I dreaded shame I felt no dread but that of being detected I only wished to avoid giving offence Instead of being delighted with the journey only wished arrival Left to nature the whole care of my own instruction Making me sensible of every deficiency Myself the principal object Obtain their wishes, without permitting or promising anything Piety was too sincere to give way to any affectation of it Placing unbounded confidence in myself and others Proportioned rather to her ideas than abilities Protestants, in general, are better instructed Read the hearts of others by endeavoring to conceal our own Remorse sleeps in the calm sunshine of prosperity Remorse wakes amid the storms of adversity Sometimes encourage hopes they never mean to realize The conscience of the guilty would revenge the innocent Where merit consists in belief, and not in virtue Whole universe would be interested in my concerns Yielded him the victory, or rather declined the contest THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, BOOK 3 [JJ#03][jj03b10.txt]3903 A subject not even fit to make a priest of Endeavoring to hide my incapacity, I rarely fail to show it Endeavoring to rise too high we are in danger of falling Foresight with me has always embittered enjoyment Hat only fit to be carried under his arm Love of the marvellous is natural to the human heart Mistake wit for sense Priests ought never to have children--except by married women Rather appeared to study with than to instruct me Though not a fool, I have frequently passed for one THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, BOOK 4 [JJ#04][jj04b10.txt]3904 Have ever preferred suffering to owing I was long a child, and am so yet in many particulars THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, BOOK 5 [JJ#05][jj05b10.txt]3905 Adopted the jargon of books, than the knowledge they contained Dying for love without an object Have the pleasure of seeing an ass ride on horseback Idleness is as much the pest of society as of solitude If you have nothing to do, you must absolutely speak continually In a nation of blind men, those with one eye are kings Injustice of mankind which embitters both life and death Not so easy to quit her house as to enter it Sin consisted only in the scandal Trusting too implicitly to their own innocence Voltaire was formed never to be (happy) When everyone is busy, you may continue silent Whose discourses began by a distribution of millions THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, BOOK 6 [JJ#06][jj06b10.txt]3906 All animals are distrustful of man, and with reason Ardor for learning became so far a madness Conversations were more serviceable than his prescriptions Finding in every disease symptoms similar to mine First time in my life, of saying, "I merit my own esteem" Looking on each day as the last of my life Making their knowledge the measure of possibilities Men, in general, make God like themselves One of those affronts which women scarcely ever forgive Prescriptions serve to flatter the hopes of the patient Read description of any malady without thinking it mine Read without studying Return of spring seemed to me like rising from the grave Slighting her favors, if within your reach, a unpardonable crime True happiness is indescribable, it is only to be felt THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, BOOK 7 [JJ#07][jj07b10.txt]3907 I am charged with the care of myself only I strove to flatter my idleness Men of learning more tenaciously retain their predjudices THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, BOOK 8 [JJ#08][jj08b10.txt]3908 All your evils proceed from yourselves Considering this want of decency as an act of courage Die without the aid of physicians I had a numerous acquaintance, yet no more than two friends Knew how to complain, but not how to act Moment I acquired literary fame, I had no longer a friend There is no clapping of hands before the king THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, BOOK 9 [JJ#09][jj09b10.txt]3909 An author must be independent of success Cemented by reciprocal esteem Difficult to think nobly when we think for a livelihood Dine at the hour of supper; sup when I should have been asleep Force me to be happy in the manner they should point out Hastening on to death without having lived How many wrongs are effaced by the embraces of a friend I loved her too well to wish to possess her I never heard her speak ill of persons who were absent Idea of my not being everything to her In the course of their lives frequently unlike themselves Is it possible to dissimulate with persons whom we love?

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An author must be independent of success Ardor for learning became so far a madness Aversion to singularity Avoid putting our interests in competition with our duty Being beat like a slave, I judged I had a right to all vices Bilboquet Catholic must content himself with the decisions of others Caution is needless after the evil has happened Cemented by reciprocal esteem Considering this want of decency as an act of courage Conversations were more serviceable than his prescriptions Degree of sensuality had mingled with the smart and shame Die without the aid of physicians Difficult to think nobly when we think for a livelihood Dine at the hour of supper; sup when I should have been asleep Disgusted with the idle trifling of a convent Dissembler, though, in fact, I was only courteous Dying for love without an object Endeavoring to hide my incapacity, I rarely fail to show it Endeavoring to rise too high we are in danger of falling Ever appearing to feel as little for others as herself Finding in every disease symptoms similar to mine First instance of violence and oppression is so deeply engraved First time in my life, of saying, "I merit my own esteem" Flattery, or rather condescension, is not always a vice Force me to be happy in the manner they should point out Foresight with me has always embittered enjoyment Hastening on to death without having lived Hat, only fit to be carried under his arm Have the pleasure of seeing an ass ride on horseback Have ever preferred suffering to owing Her excessive admiration or dislike of everything Hold fast to aught that I have, and yet covet nothing more Hopes, in which self-love was by no means a loser How many wrongs are effaced by the embraces of a friend!

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The old schoolmen were fond of quoting Buridan's Ass, that famous Donkey who, when placed between two bundles of hay, starved to death because he was unable to decide in favour of either by breaking the equilibrium between two equal but opposite attractions.

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One of the strongest NATURAL proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ASS FOR A LION.

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Archie does his best to heal the breach; but, being something of an ass, genus priceless, he finds it almost beyond his powers to placate "the man-eating fish" whom Providence has given him as a father-in-law P. G. Wodehouse AUTHOR OF "THE LITTLE WARRIOR," "A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS," "UNEASY MONEY," ETC.

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He was willing to make an ass of himself, but not a silly ass.

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And then, suddenly, he realised that this infernal, officious ass of a subconscious self had deposited him right in the gumbo.

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"I," said Indiman, gravely, "am a mathematician by instinctive preference and early training, but I have never been able to cross the 'Ass's Bridge,' the Forty-seventh problem of Euclid.

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He lost his temper and killed his music master with his lute; Samson, after using an implement which only the black slaves of our South have treated as a musical instrument, to slay a thousand Philistines, jubilated in song:-- With the jawbone of an ass Heaps upon heaps!

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With the jawbone of an ass Have I slain a thousand men!

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Another comedy of less merit is "The Devil is an Ass," acted in 1616.

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This volume published, in a carefully revised text, all the plays thus far mentioned, excepting "The Case is Altered," which Jonson did not acknowledge, "Bartholomew Fair," and "The Devil is an Ass," which was written too late.

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'Slight, what an ass was I to embrace him!

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SOUSED ("Devil is an Ass"), fol.

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His muttered comment: "stupid ass!" together with a quick glance across the room at the injured cabinet, marked the measure of his disgust.

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After all, the Bible is not a myth; and we read there that the sun stood still at a man's command, and that an ass-not a human one-spoke.

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Yet that ass at Crediton, after I had condescended to show him, persisted his own way was the best."

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"Don't be such an ass as to hesitate," said the Doctor impatiently.

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In this instance he made an ass of himself, for he hesitated and stammered.

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Somehow, that exquisite line came to my remembrance,-- "'And the hare shall kindle on the cold hearth-stone,' "and I went back quietly with Donovan; and, by Jove, sir, when we came out the great ass had the tears running down his cheeks.

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("Oh, you very miserable ass," said Captain Brentwood; "to sit down and try to describe the indescribable.

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What do you suppose he called me?--An ass!

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That little bare-legged boy called his emperor an ass!

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"Because he is an ass does the churl dare to criticise my drawings?

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He went on, as though speech was necessary to make it credible, to describe Laycock, who first gave the horror words at the cabinet council, "an undersized Oxford prig with a tenoring voice and a garbage of Greek--the sort of little fool who is brought up on the admiration of his elder sisters... "All the time almost," he said, "I was watching him--thinking what an ass he was to be trusted with men's lives...

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Fourthly, it may be objected, if man does not act from free will, what will happen if the incentives to action are equally balanced, as in the case of Buridan's ass?

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If I say that he would, I shall seem to have in my thoughts an ass or the statue of a man rather than an actual man.

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If I am asked, whether such an one should not rather be considered an ass than a man; I answer, that I do not know, neither do I know how a man should be considered, who hangs himself, or how we should consider children, fools, madmen, &c. It remains to point out the advantages of a knowledge of this doctrine as bearing on conduct, and this may be easily gathered from what has been said.

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I was ass enough to be delighted, because it gave me a chance to see the country at my leisure.

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"You are an ass!

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"That being the case," said the detective dejectedly, "there is nothing left for me to do, but to acknowledge myself an ass."

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"No, Squirrel," said M. Lecoq, kindly, "you are not an ass.

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Nobody but an ass would refuse to drink when he is thirsty, because he sees a little mud at the bottom of the bucket.

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What an ass I was!

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Only their dog is not with them, it appears;--the sacred dog which watches them till the judgment day, when it is to go up to heaven, with Noah's dove, and Balaam's ass, and Alborah the camel, and all the holy beasts.

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So he took to him a trusty ass, and as much food as he could pack on it; and, axe in hand, rode away into the wild wood, singing his psalms.

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What does that ass of an inspector say?

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And then her brother challenged me to fight a duel, whereupon, as the most worshipped of all She's had not received a ha'porth of harm at my hands, I called him a silly ass and threatened to break his head if he interfered any more in my legitimate despair.

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In his chatty way he requested me not to be an ass, and proceeded to put to me the usual silly questions.

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Oh, he's an awful ass!

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Oh, he's a colossal ass!

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You must forgive me for being such an ass.

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"I'm the flightiest and feather-headedest ass that ever brayed," he informed me.

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"So I might," retorted Dale blandly; "but when a man's a born ass it takes him some time to cultivate sense!

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"I want to tell you that I've been every end of a silly ass and I want you to forgive me."

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I'm the happiest ass that doesn't eat thistles!"

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They chiefly consisted in a reiteration of the statement that he had been a rampant and unimagined silly ass, and that Maisie, who knew the whole lunatic story, was a brick, and a million times too good for him.

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"I'll tell everybody the whole silly-ass story about myself from beginning to end," he declared.

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I was a young ass and you were a brilliant man of the world.

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Thoughtfully, Fritz replied, "I feel fortunate that we are in the possession of two such creatures; but what a pity that the horses on board died during our voyage, and left us with only an ass."

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'But how could we induce a cow, an ass, and a sow either to get upon a raft or, when there to remain motionless and quiet?

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The cow and ass gave us more trouble than did the others.

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Some collected provisions, others packed kitchen utensils, tools, ropes, and hammocks, arranging them as burdens for the cow and ass.

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To the larger beams we harnessed the cow and ass, while we ourselves dragged up the remainder.

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We harnessed both cow and ass to the sledge and, accompanied by Juno, cheerfully took our departure, choosing the way by the sands, and reaching Tentholm without accident or adventure.

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I consented; and next morning we started, bringing with us the cart, drawn by the cow and ass, and laden with everything necessary for an expedition of several days--a tent, provisions, a large supply of ammunition, and all sorts of implements and utensils; for I intended to make a great collection of fruits and the produce of different trees.

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To our surprise, however, our friend was not alone: behind him trotted another animal, an ass no doubt, but slim and graceful as a horse.

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In the large cart, to which we harnessed the buffalo, cow, and ass, we placed a dozen fowls, four young pigs, two couple of sheep, and as many goats, and a pair of hens and one cock grouse.

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'No, no, don't be shy, old fellow; spit it out!' and thus encouraged by his brother, Ernest, with the blush of a modest author, began: 'Beneath this stone poor Grizzle's bones are laid, 'A faithful ass he was, and loved by all.

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'But we, though yet we mourn our honest ass, 'Are grateful; for he thereby saved the lives 'Of all the human beings on this shore-- 'A father, mother, and their children four.'

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The confessor was then eighty years of age, and not unlike an ass; his ears were very long, his mouth very wide, his head very large, and his body very long.

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The confessor was then eighty years of age, and not unlike an ass; his ears were very long, his mouth very wide, his head very large, and his body very long.

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Hearing the magpie repeat again and again the same word, he took it into his head that by a miracle, like the observation Balaam's ass made to his master, the bird was reproaching him for his sins.

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Then he related to Madame de Saint-Simon, in the midst of sobs, how he had stuck fast at the Parliament, without being able to utter a word, said that he should everywhere be regarded as an ass and a blockhead, and repeated the compliments he had received from Madame de Montauban, who, he said, had laughed at and insulted him, knowing well what had happened; then, infuriated against her to the last degree, he called her by all sots of names.

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I was taught only to play and to hunt,: and they have succeeded in making me a fool and an ass, incapable of anything, the laughing-stock and disdain of everybody."

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This ignorance so intimidated him, that he could scarcely open his mouth before strangers, or perform the most ordinary duties of his rank; he had persuaded himself that he was an ass and a fool; fit for nothing.

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He saw four other physicians, who, like the first four, did nothing but admire the learned and admirable treatment of Fagon, who made him take towards evening some Jesuit bark and water and intended to give him at night, ass's milk.

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I am quite prepared, if ever these memoirs see the day, to find that this statement will be laughed at; that it will throw discredit on others, and cause me to be regarded as a great ass, if I think to make my readers, believe it; or for an idiot, if I have believed it myself.

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Hearing the magpie repeat again and again the same word, he took it into his head that by a miracle, like the observation Balaam's ass made to his master, the bird was reproaching him for his sins.

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I was taught only to play and to hunt, and they have succeeded in making me a fool and an ass, incapable of anything, the laughing-stock and disdain of everybody."

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As part of this impious ceremony, an ass, covered with a Bishop's vestments, having on his head a mitre, and the volumes of Holy Writ tied to his tail, paraded the streets.

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As part of this impious ceremony, an ass, covered with a Bishop's vestments, having on his head a mitre, and the volumes of Holy Writ tied to his tail, paraded the streets.

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The confessor was then eighty years of age, and not unlike an ass; his ears were very long, his mouth very wide, his head very large, and his body very long.

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Hearing the magpie repeat again and again the same word, he took it into his head that by a miracle, like the observation Balaam's ass made to his master, the bird was reproaching him for his sins.

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I was taught only to play and to hunt,: and they have succeeded in making me a fool and an ass, incapable of anything, the laughing-stock and disdain of everybody."

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As part of this impious ceremony, an ass, covered with a Bishop's vestments, having on his head a mitre, and the volumes of Holy Writ tied to his tail, paraded the streets.

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That he had promised to furnish him with a sprightly boy, but had, in truth, sent him an ass.

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He advised, that instead of hiring a beast at Annecy, which would infallibly discover us, it would be better, at night, to take it to some neighboring village, and there hire an ass to carry it to Seyssel, which being in the French dominions, we should have nothing to fear.

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Claude Anet, the gardiner, and myself, carried the case to the first village, then hired an ass, and the same night reached Seyssel.

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"Nothing, nothing," answered he, "only I shall place myself at a window in your way, that I may have the pleasure of seeing an ass ride on horseback."

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That he had promised to furnish him with a sprightly boy, but had, in truth, sent him an ass.

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Claude Anet, the gardiner, and myself, carried the case to the first village, then hired an ass, and the same night reached Seyssel.

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"Nothing, nothing," answered he, "only I shall place myself at a window in your way, that I may have the pleasure of seeing an ass ride on horseback."

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One day at the club I could not resist saying, 'You are an ass, La Bride, to ruin yourself--worse than that, to ruin your sister, for the sake of a snail, as little sympathetic as Sarah, a girl who always has a cold in her head, and who has already deceived you.'

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Larive is decidedly an ass.

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