Vulgar words in Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 (Page 1)

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To complete my disgust at things in general, my wife is regularly knocked up with dining out twice this week, though it was only in the quietest way.

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There is no question of breeding in and in between a horse and an ass, and yet their produce is usually a sterile hybrid.

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So if Carrier and Tumbler, e.g., were physiological species equivalent to Horse and Ass, their progeny ought to be sterile or semi-sterile.

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In spite of working like a horse (or if you prefer it, like an ass), I find myself scandalously in arrear, and I shall get into terrible hot water if I do not clear off some things that have been hanging about me for months and years.

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Somebody rummaging among your papers half a century hence will find "Pangenesis" and say, "See this wonderful anticipation of our modern theories, and that stupid ass Huxley preventing his publishing them."

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