Vulgar words in Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 - of Popular Literature and Science (Page 1)
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Charles Boner, in his work on Transylvania, says that even the aged find it impossible to resist the dance when a gypsy band invites them to it.
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The former was a witty and eccentric quack, who travelled about from place to place and country to country selling drugs and practising medicine in fairs and marketplaces, where his glib tongue readily gathered crowds and earned him the nickname which has since passed current in English as a generic term for buffoons of all sorts and conditions.
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Tabarin was blessed with a wife and daughter: his wife's name was Francisquine; his daughter married the celebrated buffoon Gaultier Garguille.
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By similar logic Tabarin demonstrates, among others, the following propositions: An ass is a better linguist than his master, because he understands when he is spoken to, while his lingo is all lost upon the man.