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      "text": "You blessed my life! Never on me had rested woman's love. My mother even could not find me fair: I had no sister; and, when grown a man, I feared the mistress who would mock at me. But I have had your friendship — grace to you A woman's charm has passed across my path.",
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      "text": "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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      "text": "Valvert: Your … your nose is … errr … Your nose … is very large! Cyrano: [gravely] Very. Valvert: [laughs] Ha! Cyrano: [imperturbable] Is that all? Valvert: But … Cyrano: Ah, no, young man, that is not enough! You might have said, dear me, there are a thousand things … varying the tone … For instance … Here you are: — Aggressive: \"I, monsieur, if I had such a nose, nothing would serve but I must cut it off!\" Amicable: \"It must be in your way while drinking; you ought to have a special beaker made!\" Descriptive: \"It is a crag! … a peak! … a promontory! … A promontory, did I say? … It is a peninsula!\" Inquisitive: \"What may the office be of that oblong receptacle? Is it an inkhorn or a scissor-case?\" Mincing: \"Do you so dote on birds, you have, fond as a father, been at pains to fit the little darlings with a roost?\" Blunt: \"Tell me, monsieur, you, when you smoke, is it possible you blow the vapor through your nose without a neighbor crying \"The chimney is afire!\"?\" Anxious: \"Go with caution, I beseech, lest your head, dragged over by that weight, should drag you over!\" Tender: \"Have a little sun-shade made for it! It might get freckled!\" Learned: \"None but the beast, monsieur, mentioned by Aristophanes, the hippocampelephantocamelos, can have borne beneath his forehead so much cartilage and bone!\" Off-Hand: \"What, comrade, is that sort of peg in style? Capital to hang one's hat upon!\" Emphatic: No wind can hope, O lordly nose, to give the whole of you a cold, but the Nor-Wester!\" Dramatic: \"It is the Red Sea when it bleeds!\" Admiring: \"What a sign for a perfumer's shop!\" Lyric: \"Art thou a Triton, and is that thy conch?\" Simple: \"A monument! When is admission free?\" Deferent: \"Suffer, monsieur, that I should pay you my respects: That is what I call possessing a house of your own!\" Rustic: \"Hi, boys! Call that a nose? You don't gull me! It's either a prize parrot or a stunted gourd!\" Military: \"Level against the cavalry!\" Practical: \"Will you put up for raffle? Indubitably, sir, it will be the feature of the game!\" And finally in parody of weeping Pyramus: \"Behold, behold the nose that traitorously destroyed the beauty of its master! and is blushing for the same!\" — That, my dear sir, or something not unlike, is what you could have said to me, had you the smallest leaven of letters or wit; but of wit, O most pitiable of objects made by God, you never had a rudiment, and of letters, you have just those that are needed to spell \"fool!\" — But, had it been otherwise, and had you been possessed of the fertile fancy requisite to shower upon me, here, in this noble company, that volley of sprightly pleasentries, still should you not have delivered yourself of so much as a quarter of the tenth part of the beginning of the first … For I let off these good things at myself, and with sufficient zest, but do not suffer another to let them off at me!\"",
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      "text": "What say you? It is useless? Ay, I know But who fights ever hoping for success? I fought for lost cause, and for fruitless quest! You there, who are you! — You are thousands! Ah! I know you now, old enemies of mine! Falsehood! Have at you! Ha! and Compromise! Prejudice, Treachery! … Surrender, I? Parley? No, never! You too, Folly, — you? I know that you will lay me low at last; Let be! Yet I fall fighting, fighting still!",
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