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Ah! Believe if you would that the man who made me a dreamer could pride himself on being a scoundrel., p. 111

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Ah, that! Come on, M. le baron, what the devil would you wish that one did with your confidences, if not abuse them?, p. 117

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And if Mlle. would condescend to accept the homage and supplication of a gentleman... -Are you finished yet?!, p. 61

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...and I will presently be hurled in a heap, from the summit of the North Tower! ... All this, Sirs, refers to my virtue., p. 45.

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And so, my uncle, tell me ... these lovely little flowers, where do they come from and what do they become? -Manure, p. 14

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And ... your wife? - Always with the other., p. 39

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Are you familiar with this cashemere? My goodness! ... The uncultured returns to the Pandour [soldier]., p. 125

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As for me, at least I don't say that I don't like proof spirits., p. 67

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As for me, if I have nothing in the bank, that's the fault of events, p. 15

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At the present, I sell pleasure to the ladies., p. 79

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Carrots! How many are there, of the Bourgeois and the Crested Birds that live only on them?, p. 55.

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Come, go! We'll stay there until tomorrow: a ball is always the same thing!, p. 17

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Come on! Madame Highness, just between us does Monsieur respect himself so much that he wouldn't give Madame a blow? p. 9

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Dachu, if people say that your wife commits indiscretions, they say that like they say any other thing. But if you, head of the community, are in doubt: it's on you to make yourself scarce., p. 37

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Dear God! As I was born honest! Never a man who wouldn't suit me! ... who would be nothing to me!, p. 115

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Don't love me anymore?! ... Why Pamela, that would be a luxury that your methods do not permit you., p. 97

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Don't make a mistake, young man! The taffeta goes to my house. -And the velvet for Magdalen.

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Do you know, Partagé, which village in France has the most knock-kneed clockmakers? -No. Where's that? -Well, it's Pau! -Why? -No one has ever been able to figure it out!, p. 19

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Do you know that charming person? Perfectly: she is the wife of two of my friends., p. 95

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Enough! When will you give me a little affection for tonight? -How Trite!, p. 63

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Get it here for a sou! ... Just off the presses! ... All the details of a young person! ... from Gros-Caillou, who! ... hurled himself! ... in front of the astonished fifth regiment of astonished Hussars! ... in the waves of the Seine! ... in plain daylight! ... to save those! ... of the author! ... of! ... theirs!, p. 71

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Gin, p. 137

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Go on! Go to the market, Mother ... and don't cheat me!, p.75

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Here is a lot of money for Your Honor, Milord. Here is a lot of honor for your money, Sire., p. 141

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How do you do? -Thank you! and you? -I thank you. Don't take your hat off! -As you see; and ... are you well?..., p. 13

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How is Madame? Thank you and yours?, p. 145

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Hush! A stockholder who just touched his dividend!, p. 21

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I am like that character of Henri Monnier who doesn't like spinach. I don't like the piano, and I am happy about that because if I did like the piano, my wife would play the hunting-horn., p. 27

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I am the father of Mademoiselle Jolibiais (Pretty-way), p. 19

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I forbid there to be any moustaches here ... under any pretext!, p. 12

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I have Charity, M. le Marquis; have Faith, p. 105

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I have to say that those little bootlettes there would have kept company with no small number of boots!, p. 121

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I hear a carriage. It's M. Chose [Thing] who comes to see his treasure. You mean his treasure-keeper, my dear., p. 107

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I'm such a little thing! I'm really a nothing! I'm a street urchin! ... But I'm not a Grocer., p. 33

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In your place I would reproach him with all my injustices ... and that would be the end!, p. 127

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Isn't it true, Papa, that the Monsieur in the little garden has a nice head? Your Monsieur in the little garden has a nice wig., p. 11

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I tell of my neighbors' surprise / My fortune in different times / And I am still finding its debris / In sweeping the five floors, p. 81

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I tell the good fortune, since I no longer know what it is, p. 83

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Jacques Maubourguet, you wanted to make a man out of your boy, who wasn't anything but a good-for-nothing! But now he is a Viscount ... of Maubourguet! Jacques, my man, there is only one God! I'd like to shake his Viscount-ness ... and no later than right away!, p. 18

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Les Parens Terribles

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Lit .. tle flower ... of the fields / Always ... always ... hidden, p. 23

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"Look, chaste author of my words, will you write me a part...?" "Extraordinary!" "What costume?" "Something indecent is indispensable., p. 47."

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Louison, what is yours is mine ... and I'm thirsty!

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Madame is not in! Good Lord! ... do you have 100 sous?, p. 113

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Mademoiselle sings; we will have water.

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Masques et Visages [Masks and Faces]

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M. Charles asked me: So what does she have? ... And so I said: It is nothing ... I said what you had., p. 20

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Men? What a thing to propose!, p. 73

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Minonminard is Getting Old (Minonminard se fait vieux)

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Misery and her children, p. 137

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My dear: men, what a farce! It's always the same story: a woman has only herself. Crazy! Crazy!, p. 105

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My dear, one is never as well scratched as by oneself., p. 129

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My little house, my mother ate it. My brother Zidor gambled away my hair, my shawls, my rings ... and all. And my late father drank the rest., p. 93

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My respects to you, Mme. Widow-of-everyone!, p. 91

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No, M. Henri. I do not doubt the delicacy of your feelings, nor does my daughter; but look! I cannot make soup with that!, p.89

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Not a Coquette, p. 69

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Of the unhappy people like this, one sees them with only one eye ... and not out of an attic window!, p. 57.

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"Platonic love" is just an affectation, p. 131

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Sigh! And I really liked lobster!, p. 87

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Some say that your Monsieur, Monsieur Polyte, wants, despite the respect he owes you, to eat his estate in [truffes] truffles ... You mean in [turf] the racetrack, old man Pigaud., p. 11

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... So then, if you would permit me, I will have the honor of sending my carriage for you at eleven o'clock. -That would keep me in boots [?], p. 43

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Still, at our house, I guarded the geese! And now the geese are guarding you., p. 119

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Strong in Dominoes, p. 59

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The apartment is a gem! ... and the building, Sir! ... no children, no dogs, no pianos!

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The Arthur, p. 109

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The dinner of a "protector of animals": a side of beef, half of a Scottish partridge, a pint of shrimp, etc., p. 135

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The Ex-Goddess of Liberty, p. 65

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The heir of the boat, p. 143

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The husband of Mademoiselle Cicada., p. 49

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The Madame of the tent puts on her stockings! More than that, the legs!, p. 51

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The more I see you, the more I love him., p. 101

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The Sleep of Innocence, p. 149

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The temptation of a Saint Antoinette, p. 99

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Thursday, you dined at Vachette's, with a grand Monsieur ... That's a joke! Yes, he's the touching Némorin [Forest?] of which I am the Estelle [deer?], for a quarter of an hour. He has only one eye, that man: it's equal, he displeases me!, p. 123

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Today is the feast of Saint Magdalen. Long ago that was my feast day!, p. 85

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Toinon! I'm not worth anything when one harasses me: I know my mind! What a damned knowledge you have there!, p. 17

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Well! If I had as many homes to do ... as I've undone!, p. 77

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Well, my dear, at the next carnival, I gave a son to him, to that animal. And so? And so he didn't want it!, p. 133

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Well then, Sir, you are going to see what my little one did to us one day, when she was very little, p. 15

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What a beautiful play! Always the same: its been forty years that that lover has been marrying his beloved., p. 13

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What's with you, Mimie? The damned colic again?, p. 16

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Who is more pitiable in the world than a man united with ... a dockman? It's a woman at the mercy of Pierrot.

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Without even counting the times there wasn't a thing at our house to put in the oven ... and Monsieur wears an overcoat of doubly thick cloth. Good lord! An overcoat of doubly thick cloth!, p. 53.

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Would it be an indiscretion to ask you gentlemen your advise on the temperament of the new minister?, p. 147

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... Yes my dear [meat (lit.)] Auguste. I am decidedly arrested in the heart so much that my rascal of a director will have half left it ..., p. 41.

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