While master of myself, I’ll not permit The soothing beauty of a tear to roll Along the crooked contours of this nose. There’s a sublimity in tears; … - Edmond Rostand

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While master of myself, I’ll not permit
The soothing beauty of a tear to roll
Along the crooked contours of this nose.
There’s a sublimity in tears; and I
Would not debase them;
I would never turn
Something sublime to the ridiculous.

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About Edmond Rostand

Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (1 April 1868 - 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist most famous for his fictional play Cyrano de Bergerac, based upon the life of Cyrano de Bergerac.

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Alternative Names: Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand
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- LE VICOMTE :
Maraud, faquin, butor de pied plat ridicule !
- CYRANO, ôtant son chapeau et saluant comme si le vicomte venait de se présenter :
Ah ?... Et moi, Cyrano-Savinien-Hercule De Bergerac.
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You strip from me the laurel and the rose!
Take all! Despite you there is yet one thing
I hold against you all, and when, tonight,
I enter Christ's fair courts, and, lowly bowed,
Sweep with doffed casque the heavens' threshold blue,
One thing is left, that, void of stain or smutch,
I bear away despite you…
My panache.
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