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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
Hero, Faces, Danger
Edmond Rostand, Howard Thayer Kingsbury (2004). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.