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<th style="text-align: right; padding: 0 8px 8px 0;">Citation:</th>
<td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">''J'ai pris mon bien là où je l'ai trouvé''</td>
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<th style="text-align: right; padding: 0 8px 8px 0;">Language:</th>
<td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">French</td>
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<th style="text-align: right; padding: 0 8px 8px 0;">References:</th>
<td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">Author's note,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;''[[Master and Commander (novel)|Master and Commander]]''</td>
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<th style="text-align: right; padding: 0 8px 8px 0;">Meaning:</th>
<td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">I've taken my riches from anywhere I found them</td>
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<p style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 70%;">Notes:</p>
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Often attributed in this exact form to the 17<sup>th</sup> C. playwright Jean-Baptiste Molière, but it was also the motto of the Pleiade school of French poets of the 16<sup>th</sup>century.

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