Vulgar words in The Humbugs of the World - An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, - Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages (Page 1)
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"There's cheating in all trades but ours," is the prompt reply from the boot-maker with his brown paper soles, the grocer with his floury sugar and chicoried coffee, the butcher with his mysterious sausages and queer veal, the dry goods man with his "damaged goods wet at the great fire" and his "selling at a ruinous loss," the stock-broker with his brazen assurance that your company is bankrupt and your stock not worth a cent (if he wants to buy it,) the horse jockey with his black arts and spavined brutes, the milkman with his tin aquaria, the land agent with his nice new maps and beautiful descriptions of distant scenery, the newspaper man with his "immense circulation," the publisher with his "Great American Novel," the city auctioneer with his "Pictures by the Old Masters"--all and every one protest each his own innocence, and warn you against the deceits of the rest.
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That those not surcharged with the divine afflatus may be able to get at the meaning of the above paragraph, it is translated thus: "Then shall all the blockheads in the nincompoopdome of disclosive procedure above the all-fired leather-fungus of Peter Nephninnygo, the gooseberry grinder, rise into the dome of the disclosure until coequaled and coexistensive and conglomerate lumuxes in one comprehensive mux shall assimilate into nothing, and revolve like a bob-tailed pussy cat after the space where the tail was."
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Once the "spirits" were "stumped" with a shingle--a very proper yankee jaw-bone of an ass to route such disembodied Philistines.
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Horace Greeley says that if a man will be a consummate jackass and fool, he is not aware of anything in the Constitution to prevent it.
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A heavily-built fellow with one eye, observed over the auctioneer's shoulder, with an evil look at the divine, "D--d if I don't believe that cuss is a gambler, come in here to fool us country-folks.
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"Cox is an ass," responded Bennett.
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She was a quick-witted, bright-eyed, brazen-faced hussy, not beautiful, but with lively pretty ways, and indeed somewhat fascinating.