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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.

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    Edmond Rostand, Howard Thayer Kingsbury (2004). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
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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. - Edmond Rostand
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