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If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.577, Macmillan
If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.