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In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. – Mark Twain

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It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term. – Mark Twain

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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kunst and Alterthum

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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. – George Orwell

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The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. – Anthony Burgess

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Oaths are but words, and words but wind. – Samuel Butler (1612-1680), Hudribas

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