“Our armies swore terribly in Flanders, cried my uncle Toby, — but nothing to this. — For my own part, I could not have a heart to curse my dog so.”

—  Laurence Sterne , book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book III, Ch. 11.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

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