Vulgar words in The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (Page 1)

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what a sad state the slut is in, an these gentlemen shall help her.

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[Illustration] _"Balaam's Ass"_ [Sidenote: _Vanity Fair_, Jan 11, 1879.]

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The inference ... is that all the world, competent and incompetent together, must receive the painter's work in silence, under pain of being classed with Balaam's ass....

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There could be no better illustration of all this than that Mr. Whistler has suggested of Balaam's ass.

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_For the Ass was right_, although, nay, because he was an ass.

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The fact, doubtless, explains the conviction of the race in their mission, but I fancy you will admit that this is the _only Ass on record_ who ever _did_ "see the Angel of the Lord!" and that we are past the age of miracles.

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The man who is no æsthete stands confessed, by the logic of language and the necessity of the case, as a thick-witted, tasteless, senseless, and impenetrable blockhead.

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_"Balaam's Ass"_, 41.

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