Vulgar words in The Second Generation (Page 1)
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Had the daughter not been so busy consoling her unhappy pet, the father's expression might have suggested to her that there was, not distant from her, a being who had feelings, not almost, but quite human, and who might afford an occupation for an occupation-hunting young woman which might make love and care for a monkey superfluous.
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"A regular damn dude," he was saying to himself.
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If I listened to your partiality, I'd be making a fearful ass of myself most of the time."
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"What a damn fool I've been!"
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He, rough in dress and manners and regarding "dudishness" as unfailing proof of weak-mindedness, had set down the fashionable Arthur, with his Harvard accent and his ignorance of affairs, as an unmitigated ass.
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With a survey of Arthur's fashionable attire, "I should say he might do fairly well in a gent's furnishing store in one of those damn cities."
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"The boys say," growled Waugh to Howells, "that he acts like one of them damn spying dude sons proprietors sometimes puts in among the men to learn how to work 'em harder for less.
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How his fellow-workmen were pitying him!--a poor blockhead of a bungler who had thus brought to a pitiful climax his failure to learn a simple trade.
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"The damn fool!" he fumed.
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Already I've had a thousand damn-fool ideas knocked out of my head."
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I'm fagged, and you must be, too."
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"I've felt like a damn fool ever since I began to face that gaping gang."
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What can a wise man, who insists on showing that he's wise, expect in a world of damn fools?"
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As for the girl, she's got a showy streak in her--she's your regular American woman of nowadays--the kind of daughter your sort of mother and my sort of damn-fool father breed up.