Vulgar words in Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 (Page 1)
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It was the time when lectures were expected to build character and increase knowledge; the sensation and buffoon business which destroyed the system had not yet come in.
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Politics were from an early period repulsive to me, and, after my first sight of Washington in its shabby, sleazy, dirty, unkempt condition under the old slave oligarchy, political life became absolutely repugnant to my tastes and desires.
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The Turkish ambassador, Sadoullah Bey, was a kindly gentleman who wandered about, as the French expressively say, ''like a damn<e'>d soul.''