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I know you now, old enemies of mine!
Falsehood!
Have at you! Ha! and Compromise!
Prejudice, Treachery! …
Surrender, I?
Parley? No, never! You too, Folly, — you?
I know that you will lay me low at last;
Let be! Yet I fall fighting, fighting still!

— Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac (1897)

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To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

I loved but once, yet twice I lose my love!

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It is at night that faith in light is admirable.

You blessed my life!
Never on me had rested woman's love.

Cyrano de Bergerac (1897)

Yes, a poet, … and, to such an extent, that while we fence, I will, hop!, extempore, compose you a ballade!

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