Vulgar words in Style (Page 1)
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Rhetoric is content to borrow force from simpler methods; a good orator will often bring his hammer down, at the end of successive periods, on the same phrase; and the mirthless refrain of a comic song, or the catchword of a buffoon, will raise laughter at last by its brazen importunity.
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"Damn" is often the feeblest of expletives, and "as you please" may be the dirge of an empire.