Vulgar words in The Human Machine (Page 1)

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ass x 4
blockhead x 1
            

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'Ass!' you exclaim.

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On the contrary, so far is this from being the fact, he is merely making an ass of himself.

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Everybody despises me, smiles at me in secret, disdains the idiotic ass with whom it is impossible to reason.'

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No man who, at the very inception of the fire, is visited with a clear vision of himself as an arrant ass and pitiable object of contempt, will lack the volition to put the fire out.

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Epictetus is grosser; he will call you a blockhead as soon as look at you; he is witty, he is even humorous, and he never wanders far away from the incidents of daily life.

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