Vulgar words in Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1759-65 (Page 1)

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ass x 1
merde x 1
            

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I am rather better than I was; which I owe not to my physicians, but to an ass and a cow, who nourish me, between them, very plentifully and wholesomely; in the morning the ass is my nurse, at night the cow; and I have just now, bought a milch-goat, which is to graze, and nurse me at Blackheath.

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'Enfin', to use a very coarse and vulgar saying, 'il y a de la merde au bout du baton, quelque part'.

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