Vulgar words in Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida (Page 1)
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What you deify in Aristogiton and Jael you mustn't damn in Ankarström and me.'
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or would yer damn him hard?"
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And does not Sacchetti record that the great man took the trouble to quarrel with an ass-driver and a blacksmith because they recited his verses badly?
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Yet the time is coming when every one, morally and mentally at least, will be allowed no other than a pewter pot to drink out of, under pain of being 'writ down an ass'--or worse.
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Your poor folks, I daresay, in the midst of their toiling and moiling, and scrubbing and scraping, and starving and begging, do do each other kindly turns, and put bread in each other's mouths now and then, because they can scratch each other's eyes out, and call each other hussies in the streets, any minute they like, in the most open manner.
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We have to smother hate under smiles, and envy under compliment, and while we are dying to say "You hussy," like the women in the streets, we are obliged, instead of boxing her ears, to kiss her on both cheeks, and cry, "Oh, my dearest--how charming of you--so kind!"
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Do wash the outside, says Society; and it would be a churl or an ass indeed who would refuse so small a request.