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• You shoot in your turn, not at her, but at him, knowing that she or her lover will be accused, after which you just need an alibi at the Club Saint-Michel. —  Maigret and the Nahour Case - Georges Simenon - 93: 1966
• The other traits of Valentine's character that do not necessarily belong to him as a lover are all characteristic traits of Shakespeare. —  The Man Shakespeare
• So since every logical outcome = biological father, and parents know what's best for their kids, Lins e silva has to resort to the ludicrous idea that even though he wasn't married to Bruna for a year, that as her lover, and having made Sean call him Dad since the first year (his own confession) that the lover is the real parent. —  Home
• A lover is preferable Quickly she retorted My husband is my lover---my lover is my husband He laughed, as he said It sounds very pretty, but you must admit that it is rather banal In what way He flecked the ash from his cigar You are too pretty, too charming a woman to be commonplace. —  The Mask A Story of Love and Adventure
• "I am living with Amelie, and as her lover is there I cannot go in until he has left Listen to me, then," said the poet. —  Bohemians of the Latin Quarter

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