NEWS 1: THE RUSSIAN QUESTION DEALT WITH ON A COUCH - Yes mister Coquardeau, the ambition of the Russian Colossus becomes insatiable... it is already not enough for him to have blown up the Black Sea and to have smashed all the seaports in the Levant, now today the same Colossus makes ready to seize the Dardanelles... I am of a mind to suffer none of it mister Coquardeau!

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NEWS 24: - What... the paper says that it's rumoured in the Stock-Exchange that the Russians have crossed the Prut!... - Well! Mister Panelet... all the same... because the Russians have begun hostilities that's no reason for you not to finish off shaving

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THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION 19: - say, husband, is this here, the buffet?... it looks jolly appetising to me, I'll certainly have somefink!..

THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION 19: - say, husband, is this here, the buffet?... it looks jolly appetising to me, I'll certainly have somefink!..

NEWS 80: New positions taken up by the Russians, since they have had to fight dysentery

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The Railways 14: How are they going to have atmospheric railways!..

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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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NEWS 31: GALILEO -Perhaps it would not have put you out, my fine Joshua, to stop it once more, in order to delay my demonstration

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NEWS 51: -Are you going to open the cage door [?]  -Upon my word... I'm going to repaint it

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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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