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...swear off poker, pay my debts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LAST PRAYER TO THE GODDESS OF EASE. | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

...Pray don't," I laughed, "pray don't! I'll swear eternal fealty to the molecular theory if you command...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LA FEMME SAVANTE. | 10/12/1877 | See Source »

...talk their shop-talk, talk it with them. If you cannot talk it, listen to them. But never assert yourself in opposition without real reason. Keep your ears open. Remember as much that you hear as possible, and don't speak it out at the wrong moment. Don't swear too often, for it spoils the effect of an oath, and besides it is rather vulgar. Don't use inappropriate slang, - such as "thundering quiet." Don't acquire the horribly unnatural emphasis of New England. And believe me ever

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 1/12/1877 | See Source »

...WOULD not give a fig, I swear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY CHOICE. | 12/4/1876 | See Source »

...light gleaming in your room as you return across the Yard, to have some one to call to you or growl at you as you open the door, some one ready to laugh with you at your author's wit, or to swear with you at the blindness of a textbook, - all this certainly tends to make life sweet. The other day, when that worthy African continued for the space of five minutes to call down blessings from Heaven upon my head in return for my five-cent subscription to the missionary cause, could I, had there been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OVER A SCHOONER. | 11/17/1876 | See Source »

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