Vulgar words in Letters of Franklin K. Lane (Page 1)

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"Damn that Irish temperament, anyway!" he writes.

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It was partly due to the good team-work of the office that his opinions rendered in four years were as "numerous as those heretofore rendered by the department in about sixteen years," and that during one of the years of his incumbency "snot a dollar of damages was obtained against the city."

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Well, damn it, do it then."

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That he will be able to get the nomination I am not so sure; but he does not care a tinker's damn whether he gets it himself or not.

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They go through life a damn sight more human.

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Damn these nerves, I say!

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Damn them!

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He is a Harriman, a Morgan, a Huntington, a Hill, a Bismarck, a Kuhn Loeb, and a damn Yankee all rolled into one!

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And your dear friend T. Roosevelt, did certainly write himself down as one large and glorious ass in his criticism of the message.

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There is certainly a good fifty per cent chance that this fine spirit will marry some damn brute who will worry and harass the soul out of her.

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I really have had one damn hell of a time.

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... And the second is that we kept the Mexican situation from blowing up in a most critical part of the campaign, which is also due to the Secretary of the Interior, damn you!

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Wherever you are, with people whose language you understand only imperfectly, with a civilization that is somewhat strange, and under conditions that often-times will be trying, don't adopt the usual attitude of the American in a foreign country and wonder "why the damn fools don't speak English."

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I shan't stop climbing this ladder because a rung is gone--tho' many a rung is gone--and a damn hard old ladder this is sometimes.

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Quite like him to do it if he thought the thing had hung long enough, and that Italy was too damn predatory.

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The whole damn thing has gotten into the maelstrom of politics, of the nastiest partisanship, when it ought to have been lifted up into the clearer air of good sense and national dignity.

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No one else in New York gave a damn.

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You don't mind my making love to you in this distant fashion do you?

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Funny that these women are like some damn fools, like myself, and do things too strenuously, and then go bang.

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Damn that Irish temperament, anyway!

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Damn the gall-bladder!

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Am I impatient or am I a damn fool?

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But, damn it, strutting brings that Devil's clutch--and a man cannot be anything more strutty than a dish-rag then.

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I am stronger and look very well, but my damn pains are about as frequent and crunching as ever.

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Damn all your politics and partisanship!

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