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Of my broad felt made lighter,
I cast my mantle broad,
And stand, poet and fighter,
To do and to record.
I bow, I draw my sword …
En garde! With steel and wit
I play you at first abord …
At the last line, I hit!

— 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!

Cyrano de Bergerac (1897)

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