My first happiness year in my life was with Ayesha, Never before had I been so happy

All are happy at the big party. Never before had eunuchs seen so big a party as the one for Ayesha

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

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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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LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 71: A STEEPLE-CHASE WINNER: －So you confirm that I came in first... －My dear chap you were magnificent... everybody envies your lot!..

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SKETCHES OF EXPRESSIONS 38: The Charade: My first of my lot still keeps going... Horse...Silver...Public Road...good heaven!!!...that's not going

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THE DOOR-KEEPERS OF PARIS 4: － If you are not of the nobility, it's useless my showing you this appartment I let only to titled people

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Conjugal Manners 29: This is the moment (past midnight) when calm and peace truly reign in happy households. Better late than never

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Strangers in Paris 3: What is called dining in a restaurant: －Waiter!...I've been in your establishment for an hour and a quarter without having a chair...and you've still only given the tooth-picks to my wife who's dying of hunger... you'll make me lose my normal posture, and I'll end up with my feet in the dish... do you understand, waiter! －There now, Sir... there there now, there there!!!

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NEWS 106: －Well for this year Papa Mars doesn't seem to want to take my place!

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"Okesa Watermelons" grown in Sado had been shipped out the island from the early Showa period

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TRAGIC PHYSIOGNOMIES 10: OEDIPUS －In piercing him, I myself felt in my soul, / All victorious as I was... you tremble, madam!

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Parisian Emotions 27: That's the limit! I have bought four sizes, just like those there, in my life; Fifine, my first girlfriend; Cocotte, that wench Cocotte! big Mimi, and my wife, like that up there in the corner

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The Blue-stockings 3: Goodbye, my dear, I am going to my editors’..

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NEWS 48: SQUINTING: To be sure, I didn't recognise you! －Oh! that's because I've been operated on, I don't squint any more, that changes me completely don't you think? －Oh! completely, because before I think you squinted inwards...

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LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 33: A SAINT’S DAY AND DAY OF BRACES: －Here my sweetheart... on the occasion of my Saint’s day I’ve embroidered these braces!... －(The gentleman, aside.) Good God I’ve already got eleven pairs of them in my drawer... I won’t get away with it this time for less than fifty crowns!... women really take too great an advantage of our wearing trousers, so as to make us wear braces!..

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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 184: AN UNLUCKY FIGHTER: See, here, my friend Léon, gulp this down for me... it's Argenteuil balsam...it's worked every time one of my men has been unwise enough to separate from my gang and has got a frightful beating up!...another time, don't go out alone against the majority!..

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CONTEMPORARY ACTORS. (THE ODEON). HENRI MONNIER. (In the role of Joseph Prudhomme.) Never will my daughter become the wife of a scribbler!..

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NEWS 15: － These poor animals... they're so disfigured that you can't even recognise them... they who've been such good friends for five years!... oh! Mister Barbaroux, we're living in truly sad times!..

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News 127: How do you like my shawl..

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The Representatives Represented 25: Ferdinand Flocon; At first sight, you perhaps took this person for a Russian prince, slightly Cossack, which cannot have failed to afflict profoundly his quality as a watchful Republican. Ferdinand Flocon was for some weeks Minister of Agriculture, and one of his first acts was to shave his chin, formerly embellished with a full beard. He had even more excellent intentions, but lacked the time to carry them out

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The Representatives Represented 25: Ferdinand Flocon; At first sight, you perhaps took this person for a Russian prince, slightly Cossack, which cannot have failed to afflict profoundly his quality as a watchful Republican. Ferdinand Flocon was for some weeks Minister of Agriculture, and one of his first acts was to shave his chin, formerly embellished with a full beard. He had even more excellent intentions, but lacked the time to carry them out

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The Representatives Represented 25: Ferdinand Flocon; At first sight, you perhaps took this person for a Russian prince, slightly Cossack, which cannot have failed to afflict profoundly his quality as a watchful Republican. Ferdinand Flocon was for some weeks Minister of Agriculture, and one of his first acts was to shave his chin, formerly embellished with a full beard. He had even more excellent intentions, but lacked the time to carry them out

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Conjugal Manners 27: The first born

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