I recover my property wherever I find it.

Molière. Cyrano de Bergerac incorporated a scene confidentially communicated to him by Molière, in his Pédant Joué, act 2, sc. 4. Molière taking possession, used it in his Les Fourberies de Scapin. Emerson—Letters and Social Aims, attributes the mot to Marmontel. Reported in Hoyt's (1922), p. 599