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A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out.

Jack was embarrassed--never hero more, And as he knew not what to say, he swore.

Bad language or abuse I never, never use, Whatever the emergency; Though "Bother it" I may Occasionally say, I never never use a big, big D.

Though "Bother it" I may Occasionally say, I never never use a big, big, D.

I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.

There written all Black as the damning drops that fall From the denouncing Angel's pen, Ere Mercy weeps them out again.

And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing, as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure.

When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.

That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

Do not swear at all; Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I'll believe thee.

So soon as ever thou seest him, draw; and as thou draw'st, swear horrible; for it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.

Our armies swore terrible in Flanders.

"He shall not die, by God," cried by uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in: and the Recording Angel as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.