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The druggist would formerly have taken good care not to use such an expression, but he was cultivating a gay Parisian style, which he thought in the best taste; and, like his neighbour, Madame Bovary, he questioned the clerk curiously about the customs of the capital; he even talked slang to dazzle the bourgeois, saying bender, crummy, dandy, macaroni, the cheese, cut my stick and "I'll hook it," for "I am going."

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And we want to shift the systems that open the doors for people who were formerly tax burdens to become part of the tax base.

And that's 70 percent of the United States stock market, 70 percent of the operating system formerly known as your pension, your mortgage.

Even formerly enslaved African children in the antebellum South jumped rope, too.

For me, it means helping others to raise the beams on their own formerly abandoned houses, or helping to educate those with privilege, now increasingly moving into cities, how we might come in and support rather than stress existing communities.

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