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! (Edmond Rostand)

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!

Edmond Rostand

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