"To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero."
— Edmond Rostand

January 1, 1970

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Speaking to the Académie française in 1903, as quoted by John Lahr in "Fighting and Writing" in The New Yorker (12 November 2007)