Vulgar words in The Fortunate Youth (Page 1)

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At school, where Billy was the woodenest blockhead, he was top of his class.

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It's damned good of you--but it's my one pride left--the pride of both of us--the missus and me--that we've never borrowed money--" "But it isn't borrowed, you silly ass," cried Paul cheerfully.

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I don't say as how I don't hold with Gawd," he explained, with uplifted forefinger and cocked head; "but if ever I thinks of Him, I like to feel that He's in the wind or in the crickle-crackle of the earth, just near and friendly like, but not a-worrying of a chap, listening for every cuss-word as he uses to his old horse, and measuring every half-pint he pours down his dusty throat.

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Now if you ain't satisfied, my dear, you're a damn criss-cross female.

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I don't care a damn about myself.

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Not a little tuppenny damn.

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Not a tuppenny damn.

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An ex-convict--it's enough to damn any candidate.

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Your hard-bitten Radical would sooner have a self-made man than an aristocrat to represent him in Parliament; but, damn it all, he'd sooner have an aristocrat than an ex-convict."

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"I don't care a damn!" said he.

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But it doesn't matter a tuppenny damn what one believes in, so long as it's worth believing in.

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