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This is all Daumier.
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This is the morceau,
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the piece that you're obliged to swallow after dinner.
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Here's the little girl being trotted out to play a few notes
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for the quite bored people who are sitting there and waiting.
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Even the idea of "It's your birthday, papa."
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You didn't take time out to celebrate a birthday
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if you were an ordinary person having to get to the fields
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at 4:00 in the morning in the summer, or going to work during the day.
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The culture of childhood is really all there.
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Also, there's a whole notion,
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and here again this would probably fit