Vulgar words in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 (Page 1)
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This is the trick of some scoundrel tailor, who sent home a coat too small for the wearer, and thus persuaded him (he must have been an ass) to tie two buttons together, and so make both ends meet.
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It took centuries of blockheads to raise a joint stool into a chair; and it required something like a miracle of genius, in the estimate of elder generations, to reveal the possibility of lengthening a chair into a _chaise-longue_, or a sofa.
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To live uprightly, then, is sure the best; To save ourselves, and not to damn the rest.