Some Villagers Commenting on How Pretty the Old Woman’s Legs Are, Kamiunten, Nakijin
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THE EXHIBITION OF ANIMALS 3: - Look here, there are cows with a body but no legs!... - Another time they'll succeed in producing animals with legs byt no body!..
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Very good! very good! you are behaving perfectly! we are going to take you to Beaulieu, to Poissy, to Bicêtre, I am pleased with you
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Where are we going, where are we going?...We are walking on a volcano, the gulf of revolutions is open beneath our footsteps...the carriage of state has been halted by the flood of all these bad passions
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PARISIAN SKETCHES 33: - How late you are arriving at the Stock-Exchange... I'll warrant you've had a windfall?... scoundrel!... - What do you expect!... I'll settle down..., when I get old!..
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Strangers in Paris 4: Some slight purchases: Oh!...the beautiful shawls... would you buy me one, dear?... -What!... why didn't you say straightaway that you wanted everything, and we could have started by simply buying up the whole la Ville de Paris shop!..
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News 399: The last week before the opening of the Salon: Chorus- Take courage, get to work; my friends are always there!..
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The Blue-stockings 26: Oh pleasure of opium, how you enrapture me!..
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Bathers 7: You see, master, you are... of a strength
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![[THESE GOOD PARISIANS] 1: - Oh! Théophile..., I'm learing some fine things about you..., according to Mr. Desbarolles' book, I see you have on your palm the debauchery line!... - Oh!... bah..](https://search.artmuseums.go.jp/jpeg/small/nmwa/0044170001.jpg)
[THESE GOOD PARISIANS] 1: - Oh! Théophile..., I'm learing some fine things about you..., according to Mr. Desbarolles' book, I see you have on your palm the debauchery line!... - Oh!... bah..
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![Ancient History 30: Dionysius the tyrant. If he chooses this condition in his sorry fortune, / It is because in the matter of schools / Tyrants always make too much of it, / So that they can fine one [school] in their old age (The late Barthelemy)](https://search.artmuseums.go.jp/jpeg/small/nmwa/0031430001.jpg)
Ancient History 30: Dionysius the tyrant. If he chooses this condition in his sorry fortune, / It is because in the matter of schools / Tyrants always make too much of it, / So that they can fine one [school] in their old age (The late Barthelemy)
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News 122: The last day for the submission of pictures: -Heavens above! -we're already here and my picture isn’t finished... I’m annoyed at having hired my porter for the whole day, I would sooner have had him carry it by the hour!..
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Ancient History 43: Œdipus at the Spinx's. This ugly animal with the head of an antiquary, / Said to him: Why, Sir, can you not count / On a pyramid? Then without hesitation / Œdipus replied: It's because they are near Cairo? You can be grateful for an old pun (Lesson by Mr. Raoul-Rochette)
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![NEWS 66: Oh! if I were the King of Spain How [quickly] I'd clear off! (Variation on a celebrated ballad)](https://search.artmuseums.go.jp/jpeg/small/nmwa/0041230001.jpg)
NEWS 66: Oh! if I were the King of Spain How [quickly] I'd clear off! (Variation on a celebrated ballad)
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PASTORALS 22: -I tell you you've moved the boundary stone and you've moved it forward on to my field!... And I'm telling you I haven't... and I'll maintain in front of all the courts that it's due to my father, and even my grandfather, that my boundary's where it is!... Ah! but!..
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PASTORALS 22: -I tell you you've moved the boundary stone and you've moved it forward on to my field!... And I'm telling you I haven't... and I'll maintain in front of all the courts that it's due to my father, and even my grandfather, that my boundary's where it is!... Ah! but!..
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THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION 36: THE REFRESHMENT-ROOM WITH SEATING - Look here... all these people eating... so they feed you on days when you pay twenty sous admission... let's go in!... - No, missis Carpolet,... those are probably the memebers of the tasting jury in going about their duties... let's not disturb them!
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Proverbs and Maxims 12: There's a sucker! personally, I agree with the proverb: “What's good to take is good to keep.”
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Sketch Taken at the Salon by Daumier: A fantastic painter: - See, look how I visualise the apotheosis of a martyr... - But I can make out only the legs of your figure. -The head's already in the sky... that proves he's a saint!..
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![Double Faces 1: The Uncle-The Nephew: [On the left of the page, vertically]: (The Nephew, aloud) I've been given a little too much, that's bad -(The Uncle, aside) I'll inherit from my nephew, how strange! [On the right of the page,vertically]: (The Uncle, aloud) I'm not well, my friend. -(The Nephew, aside)Things are going well, I'm going to inherit from him](https://search.artmuseums.go.jp/jpeg/small/nmwa/0036520001.jpg)
Double Faces 1: The Uncle-The Nephew: [On the left of the page, vertically]: (The Nephew, aloud) I've been given a little too much, that's bad -(The Uncle, aside) I'll inherit from my nephew, how strange! [On the right of the page,vertically]: (The Uncle, aloud) I'm not well, my friend. -(The Nephew, aside)Things are going well, I'm going to inherit from him
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![IN CHINA 18: -They're going to be truly caught, those Europeans!... they've got cannons which are terrible, because they're grooved, [but] I, I've had the excellent idea of making all my soldiers striped!..](https://search.artmuseums.go.jp/jpeg/small/nmwa/0041610001.jpg)
IN CHINA 18: -They're going to be truly caught, those Europeans!... they've got cannons which are terrible, because they're grooved, [but] I, I've had the excellent idea of making all my soldiers striped!..
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Ancient History 31: The fall of Icarus. As the sun roasted his wings, / His old scoundrel of a father, inventor of this contrivance, / Said, watching him fall through the eternal vaults: / Assuredly, this is no good (A poet who travels only by carriage)
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SKETCHES OF EXPRESSIONS 19: (Aside)God! my poor boy how ugly you are! (Aloud) My respects to your wife. (Aside) When you've got a face like yours, you shouldn't go out during the day
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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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TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 12: -So then, my friend, at the age of twenty two you had already killed three men... what a powerful nature, and how guilty society is for not having better guided it!... -Oh! yeah sir!... in my view the police have been very wrong... without them I wouldn't be here!..
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