Vulgar words in Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (Page 1)
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fancy a man trying to make love on strictly truthful principles, determining never to utter a word of mere compliment or hyperbole, but to scrupulously confine himself to exact fact!
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If you want to make love to the eldest daughter, or get the old man to lend you the garden roller, or the mother to subscribe to the Society for the Suppression of Solo-Cornet Players in Theatrical Orchestras (it's a pity there isn't one, anyhow), you have to begin with the dog.
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His sarcasm is accepted as his literal opinion and gains for him the reputation of being an ass, while if, on the other hand, wishing to ingratiate himself, he ventures upon a little bit of flattery, it is taken for satire and he is hated ever afterward.
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What more natural than that amid so many roguish ayes and laughing lips he should become confused and, forgetting for the moment which particular pair of roguish ayes and laughing lips it is that he belongs to, go off making love to the wrong set.
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One might as well inquire of a lodging-house slavey the way to make beds as expect a country bumpkin to know the road to the next village.
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He worked away in silence for awhile, and then he muttered "Damn the duck" and took his coat off.
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old screen, and did the lads and the lassies go making love fifty years ago just as they do now?
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I would make love to other maidens.