MONOMANIACS 8: THE COFFEE-LOVER: The half-cup easily becomes second nature; one finds a number of people who, like the lover above, have made themselves an immutable law to take their coffee, in order to facilitate digestion, even though their means do not allow them to dine. It is agreed that existence would be too bitter without chicory

MEMORIES OF THE PEACE CONGRESS 6: Universal Peace haveing been decreed, the honorable sir Cobden [sic] finds a way of using the generals who crossed their arms

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NEWS 37: The closer I get to the sun, the more I shiver... surely that star doesn't warrant the reputation for heat that it's been given... I see that my horse misses the ground!

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THE EXHIBITION OF ANIMALS 6: － Oh look, what funny cowherds... they're dressed in a strange way. － They've probably put on carnival costumes to distract their animals along the way..

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News 184: To say that Proudhon does not want..

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MUSICAL SKETCHES 1: Parisian music lovers taking advantage of Rossini's sojourn in Italy to allow themselves to perform a bit of William Tell

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EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 48: －They said to the Government that it wasn't progressing, so naturally it got the idea of taking all the railways!... －That's wanting to go too fast!..

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THE EATERS OF HORSEFLESH 12: Great revolt of the rats of Montfaucon who do not want to let their food be carried off by the scholars

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The Blue-stockings 20: Oh woe!... to have dreamed... a husband

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JOURNEY TO CHINA 19: CHINESE WORRIORS. All Chinese men have the right, from six to eight times a year, to carry a rifle, a cartridge-pouch, and even to wear a fur cap; then they apply themselves, more or less voluntarily to night patrols which have as their goal the maintenance of public peace. Only it happens quite often that the chief named KA-PO-RAL takes infinite trouble to prevent his warriors singing at the tops of their voices “mother GO-DI-CHON” or other Chinese ballads, and it is by waking with a start that the good citizens learn that their rest is being watched over

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THESE GOOD PARISIANS 13: THE PARISIAN － Tell me, worthy fellow, what do you do with all your cows when they become old and no longer give milk?... THE COW-HERD － Look here,... the tomfoolery.. you make beef out of them!..

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JOURNEY TO CHINA 9: A CHINESE DANCE.One is greatly mistaken if one believes the Chinese people to be giddy, joyful and the friend of pleasure: they are on the contrary serious and morose, since their greatest amusement consists in a type of lugubrious walking in which the men and women walk one in front of the other, or one beside the other, and seem to be saying among themselves: brother we should die! In order also to point to the philosophical intention behind this ceremony, the opposite of dancing, they call it: Counter-dancing

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NEWS 179: The soothsayers of diplomacy not daring to broach the Prussian-bird in order to know what to believe

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NEWS 179: The soothsayers of diplomacy not daring to broach the Prussian-bird in order to know what to believe

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MONOMANIACS 5: THE REGULATOR: The word regulator normally applying to a type of machine, may wall also be applied to the individual above. One finds in Paris, said to be the most spiritual town in the most spiritual country in the Universe, several dozen particular men whose sole intellectual occupation is to regulate, each day, their watch on the shot of midday from the canon of the Royal Palace. Here, gunpowder makes those happy who will never set the world on fire

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SKETCHES OF THE HUNT 5: －Well!... Are we going to continue our hunting, despite the vile weathe?... －No! absolutely not..., it's raining... the game fear the rain as much as we do..., they can't fail to come and shelter in this cottage, and we're going to bag lots of them!..

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SKETCHES OF THE THEATRE 15: That which proves to us why it is pertfectly useless to spout gracious compliments to the public, in the play's final couplet

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Suddenly I felt better. Maybe it was the magic of the old woman, or the gods had pity on me

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JOURNEY TO CHINA 7: CHINESE MARRIAGE. The angler's skill in setting his lines, the hunter's artfulness in taking game, the horse-dealer's tricks to hide the redhibitory defects of his horse, nothing is comparable to the skill, the artfulness, the trick which a mother deploys in order to marry her daughter... the poor Chinese men mistrust the lures, of honey and of glue, to no avail, someone always falls into the maternal snare

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MONOMANIACS 4: THE AMATEUR GUITARIST: Defying the immense yawn / Wich he elicits by singing his verses / He will sing a ballad / About the remnants of the universe..

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We have the same gestures, even though Ayesha was not born from my stomach

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SKETCHES OF SUMMER 3: THE FIRST SWIMMING LESSON. －I really want to learn to swim, but not in the water, papa,... oh! not in the water!..

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BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 1: THE SELLER OF SECURITY [WATCH] CHAINS: The security [watch] chain is so called because it is a secure means of knowing that the ninny who buys it owns a watch. Accomplices stationed in the vicinity are not slow to turn this sign to a profit. Bertrand sold the chain, Macaire deals with the watch

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PARISIAN MEN IN 1852. 6: － [May] I introduce to you my son Théodule, scarely out of college and he's already made a multitude of victims... al the young women wish to marry him! － The bad boy!... he takes after his father!

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BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 19: THE CLAQUER: By Jingo; we're going to need to liven it up this evening, a new play in three acts; the comic wants me to burst out laughing, the heroine wants me to cry, the author wants me to stamp up to the old heavy mother, who wants me to applaud her... there's ... work for you

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