All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me... One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is... my white plume.
("Cyrano De Bergerac")
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Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies.
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