Vulgar words in The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro (Page 1)
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Resolve me now, which will be the greater ass--the one that rides, or the one that is ridden?"
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"That is a thing he seems to have determined for himself," he answered smoothly--he could be smooth as a cat upon occasion, could this bastard of Costanzo Sforza.
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Scorn there was in my mood and a hot contempt of him that he could stand there and accept their acclamation with an air of humility that I am persuaded was assumed: a certain envious anger was there, too, to think that such a weak-kneed, lily-livered craven should receive the plaudits of the deeds that I, his buffoon, had performed for him.