Profanity
; Nobody cares tor the : jsw««ribfl» ; of ? ai» liabifuaf swearer. Ha «fe"bf pro* fanity hire no terror rn-thVein They mean nothing It is tit? man who never 'iiwears r vho scares you oot of ;yonr. boots if once in a lifetime ;.b.e ,d«ws sw«ar. So far as we can learn, Washington onlr <wore onct! du^n» all the eijjht jeirn of the rerotutionarr war. I'.ut "that on& tiiuo couutedi t It set back >b» tide n{ retreat, chansjed a root into a ricteryr-and made; things lmpfciw all roundlTißut the fel 6w who swears en, ( Jill occasions, and sweaft Rlit and ooia wi'tb 'ffie kaSne mouth, the intellectual pauper who eke* out his barren^suppjtj of pidvas with an abundant crop of profanity, whose conrersation is a lontz, chain efunull priri-'--hiir r id ! weAl; tiresdiife, 4i>j?u!^. ing. So if yon want to swe"afi with any effect, my boy, be very »eldbm|kbout if. Be exclusive { in: you profanity^i. Ifiye* panrt get along, without ifc. b^injf ;it/.out occasinnally, like rare old .family dis,hours' a day. And— you w^n'tbcolfendjed my, man but if youwitl 6Si«erre clpkeiy you will perceiVe that yoHng "nienVikyr s nodgling* of about your age,, swear more than men— moret fi'equen'tijrj more awk> wardly, t with>le»«< point' and direction. A man becomes ashamed of it. It belongs tp the oJKaretteVnd^iny^nee period of life^ my boy» It b«ldnjE« to the •*"uasalted KeaeratioW-^he^^ jb^TJWt So put it away and pnt on man^ tu^s. ,
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 96, 23 January 1886, Page 2
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238Profanity Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 96, 23 January 1886, Page 2
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