Vulgar words in The Learned Women (Page 1)

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blockhead x 1
buffoon x 1
hussy x 3
            

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I see you here, you hussy!

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you are afraid of offending the hussy!

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But the greatest project of our assembly--a noble enterprise which transports me with joy, a glorious design which will be approved by all the lofty geniuses of posterity--is the cutting out of all those filthy syllables which, in the finest words, are a source of scandal: those eternal jests of the fools of all times; those nauseous commonplaces of wretched buffoons; those sources of infamous ambiguity, with which the purity of women is insulted.

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Our style is very good, and I should be a blockhead, Madam, to try and change a single word.

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this impudent hussy dares to show herself here again!

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