Vulgar words in Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 - Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers (Page 1)
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Until the time of Moses, the God of Sinai was only the God of the Hebrew people, and this accounts for His violence, wrath, jealousy, and all of those qualities which went to make up a barbaric chief, including the tendency of His sons and servants to make love to the daughters of earth.
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Socrates was more or less of a buffoon, and to many in Athens he was a huge joke--a town fool.
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To worship with a noise seems to us a little like making love with a brass band.
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Grant it be so; yet certainly in the most luxurious entertainments it is Folly must give the sauce and relish to the daintiest delicacies; so that if there be no one of the guests naturally fool enough to be played upon by the rest, they must procure some comical buffoon, that by his jokes and flouts and blunders shall make the whole company split themselves with laughing; for to what purpose were it to be stuffed and crammed with so many dainty bits, savory dishes, and toothsome rarities, if after all this epicurism, the eyes, the ears, and the whole mind of man, were not so well foisted and relieved with laughing, jesting, and such like divertisements, which, like second courses, serve for the promoting of digestion?
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At Tuskegee there is no place for those who lie in wait for insults and regard scrapping as a fine art.