"I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as that, among other requisites, the gallant person will always consider the world with a smile of toleration, and his own doings with a smile of honest amusement, and Heaven with a smile which is not distrustful â€” being thoroughly persuaded that God is kindlier than the genteel would regard as rational."

-- James Branch Cabell

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