ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 3: Yes, Sir, you see in me a victim of political hatreds... an outcast... I have been condemned Falsely and I have had to go into exile... I'm clearing off to Belgium in order to reach Spain where I count on taking up arms... (aside) if I can't take anything else

I Don't Want to Eat Anything

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That's something I just can't understand

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Caricaturana 80: Robert Macaire shareholder: But Mr.Macaire, when I distributed these dividends, you knew that they were taken on the capital? －What does it matter! you didn't have the right to distribute them, you should refund them to us. －Refund them to you!!! but you accepted them, it's up to you to refund them! －You didn't have the right to distribute them to us, that's my opinion and I'm sticking to it, you should pay them back to us, that's my opinion and I'm sticking to it

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ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 2: －Yes, Madam, I am completely devoted to our August Prince, and by means of a few miserable hundreds of thousands of francs will undertake to re-establish him on the throne. －What are your means? －My means! I am full of means! I have friends, newspapers, and if the entire Macaire family declares itself for him, never could a Prince raise a more innumerable army!..

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ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 1: Greetings! land of hospitality... greetings! motherland to those who no longer have one... sacred refuge for the unfortunates whom human justice casts out... greetings!!! To all drooping hearts how dear Belgium is!

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ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 12: What's the matter with you, Robert? you seem full of care. －Yes I'm vexed... Those devils of Shareholders have tormented me so much, tormented me so much that I gave them a dividend. －Deuce! a real dividend? －Yes, I gave it to them completely.. －What are you goin to do? －I'm going to try to get it back

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ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 16: Sirs, crushed under the weight of misfortune, ruined, laid bare, I lost my head, I abandoned all that was dear to me, my motherrrland, my creditors, the whole paraphernalia... here am I on foreign soil... sheltered from my persecutors, but ready for the greatest sacrifices to preserve intact the name of Macaire. In consequence, I offer you 2 per cent payable in ten years;... by refusing, you can only lose hopes of the above-mentioned 2 per cent and the estmation of your servant / Macaire

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NEWS 87: －Well now! but we can't see anything in your magic lantern? －Have a little patience! the curtain hasn't yet risen

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ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 19: Macaire inheritor-philanthropist. －You see, Bertrand, my wife is dead, my rights to the inheritance are contestable; I'll offer a third of it to the poor, on condition that they immediately advance me the rest... they'll never touch a brass farthing!... that's how I manipulate legacies!! －Well done, dear fellow! If you don't pick up the Manthyon prize, you'll have been robbed!

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PARISIANS TYPES 29: Discomfort in talking to people who have a mania for putting thier story into action. －Yes dear Sir, do you think that the rrrrascal was allowed to laugh in my face. You know I won't stand for that. So, I punched him... there, like that, do you see, and I shook you... there, like that... vigorously

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NEWS 234:－ I can't believe my telescope... England holds out her arms to Kossuth!..

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ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 6: (Robert) So! my dear director, how goes your business? (Bertrand) Oh, vefry well, very well!! I'm very satisfied... only we don't have a sou, we can't continue. －The deuce!! －But a capitalist should deposit 200000 francs with us, the document's going to be signed this evening or tomorrow... I'm very impatient, I've got the greatest need for a pair of boots

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...You have the floor, explain yourself, you are free to do so!

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EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT [second series]: (The manservant) －Sir would do well to wear his old dress coat (Aside) I need to wear the new one to go to the door-keeper's evening party

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ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 15: A groundless quarrel. －..Yes, Sir, do me the pleasure of giving that jovial fellow a brief respite... understood that the aforesaid gentleman denies himself the printing of my newspaper, and by this fact ruins my undertaking; to see oneself condemned to 67,000 f[rancs] of losses and interest... －But on what is his refusal grounded? －Oh, on a foolishness.... a trifle... on what I should pay him in cash, for which I'm 21 months in arrears... it's a poor pretext, a groundless quarrel

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TRIVIAL THINGS 7: －Come to dinner, my wife dines in town: we will be fellows together. －Ah,deuce,I have a migraine! (aside) and his wife who is waiting for me at home!

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TRAGIC PHYSIOGNOMIES 6: ANDROMACHE “I have seen the days of my whole family cut short” “And my husband covered with blood dragged through the dust!”

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NEWS 55: AN EFFECT OF THE DEMOLITION WORKS IN PARIS. Certainly here's where I live... and I can't even recover my wife!

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TRIVIAL THINGS 6: －Is it to you or to the Gentleman who's your brother that I have the honour of speaking? －It is to my brother, Sir

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SKETCHES OF THE TEATRE BY DAUMIER 1: － Oh! my dear sir, you have given me a very pleasant evening, you have reminded me of Talma － Have I really reminded you of Talma? － Yes, particularly bu the shape of your nose

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ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 11: Again my creditors, always my creditors... it's em... thing!... What do those animals want form me?... would that they'd leave me in peace!... Me, do I ask anything of them

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ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 17: Man in naluratibus [sic]. Philosophy, my dear Bertrand, explains very well our two characters from our physiques... you are weakness, I am strength... to you is cunning, to me courage... you are the ivy and I the oak, without me the slightest breeze from the police will plunge you into a torrent of misfortune... do not leave me and inscribe upon your arms: I die or I cling

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ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 17: Man in naluratibus [sic]. Philosophy, my dear Bertrand, explains very well our two characters from our physiques... you are weakness, I am strength... to you is cunning, to me courage... you are the ivy and I the oak, without me the slightest breeze from the police will plunge you into a torrent of misfortune... do not leave me and inscribe upon your arms: I die or I cling

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The Hundred-and-one Robert-Macaire [Caricaturana] 100: Mr. Daumier, your Robert-Macaire series is a charming thing!... It is the exact portrayal of the pilfering of our age... It is the faithful portrait of the crowd of rascals you find everywhere, in business, in politics, in finance, everywhere! everywhere!!... The cheats should hate you... But the estimation of honest people is yours... Have you still not received the cross of honour?... It's shocking!!..

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