Vulgar words in Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (Page 1)
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I have made love on egg-boxes.--Aye, and to feel again the blood running through my veins as then it ran, I would be content to sit only on egg-boxes till the time should come when I could be buried in an egg-box, with an egg-box reared above me as tombstone.--I have spent many an evening on an egg-box; I have gone to bed in egg-boxes.
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What rich art patron cares to be told continually by his own walls that Midas had ass's ears; that Lazarus sits ever at the gate?
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I never prowl round the oyster-bed, fighting other gentlemen oysters, making love to lady oysters already married.
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The commercial gent, no doubt, thinks the ponderous shopwalker an ass, but refrains from telling him so.
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After him, the shop boy and the shop girl, making love as they walk, not to waste time.
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If somebody left you a hundred thousand pounds to-morrow, you would start a newspaper, or build a theatre--some damn-fool trick for getting rid of the money and giving yourself seventeen hours' anxiety a day; you know you would."
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"It isn't losing the money I mind so much; it's getting this damn thing, that annoys me.
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"'Take that damn circus out of the road,' he shouted.
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I was too far off to distinguish the barks, but I could guess what he was saying-- "Damn that man, he's off again."