Vulgar words in The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories (Page 1)
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Ah, to jump on a horse without enquiring whose it is, to ride races with the wind like a devil, over fields and forests and ravines, to make love to girls, to mock at everyone... Yergunov thrust the poker into the snow, pressed his forehead to the cold white trunk of a birch-tree, and sank into thought; and his grey, monotonous life, his wages, his subordinate position, the dispensary, the everlasting to-do with the bottles and blisters, struck him as contemptible, sickening.
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He has enjoyed this privilege for years, probably because he is an old inhabitant of the hospital--a quiet, harmless imbecile, the buffoon of the town, where people are used to seeing him surrounded by boys and dogs.
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"Your Diogenes was a blockhead," said Ivan Dmitritch morosely.
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The matches would be lying before him on the table, and he would see them and shout to the waiter to give him the matches; he did not hesitate to appear before a maidservant in nothing but his underclothes; he used the familiar mode of address to all footmen indiscriminately, even old men, and when he was angry called them fools and blockheads.
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I'll hand you over to the police, damn you!
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"Besides, I haven't the time to hang about the law courts, damn them!"
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I ask you civilly, you blockheads!"
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Ach, damn it all!
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"I ought to talk to this bully, ram into his stupid noddle that he is a blockhead and a fool, and that I am not in the least afraid of him..." The jeune premier stopped before Zybaev's house and looked at the windows.
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Damn all this analysis!
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Damn all this philosophy and psychology!"