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At your age, one is allowed to 'outrer' fashion, dress, vivacity, gallantry, etc., but by no means to be behindhand in any one of them.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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At your age, one is allowed to 'outrer' fashion, dress, vivacity, gallantry, etc., but by no means to be behindhand in any one of them.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1753-54 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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At your age, one is allowed to outrer fashion, dress, vivacity, gallantry, etc., but by no means to be behindhand in any one of them.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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Il ne faut jamais rien outrer, she said to her.
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It must be said, however, that his example was followed, haud passibus æquis, by younger proselytes, and that to outrer whatever was by anybody considered offensive in the doctrines and maims of Benthanism, became at one time the badge of a small coterie of youths.
Chapter III. Last Stage of Education and First of Self-Education 1909
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It must be said, however, that his example was followed, haud passibus aequis, by younger proselytes, and that to outrer whatever was by anybody considered offensive in the doctrines and maims of Benthanism, became at one time the badge of a small coterie of youths.
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"_Il ne faut jamais rien outrer_," she said to her.
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1869
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