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A man describes his birth and upbringing through the adventures of his family.

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of destruction ever since? Are not trouse, and placket-holes, and pump-handles⁠—and spigots and faucets, in danger still from the same association?⁠⸺⁠Chastity, by nature, the gentlest of all affections⁠—give it but its head⁠⸺’tis like a ramping and a roaring lion.

The drift of the curate d’Estella’s argument was not understood.⁠—They ran the scent the wrong way.⁠—The world bridled his ass at the tail.⁠—And when the extremes of delicacy , and the beginnings of concupiscence , hold their next provincial chapter together, they may decree that bawdy also.

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