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Il faut aller à l'escrime comme on va à la danse; il faut aller à l'escrime comme on va à  la guerre.**
- Émile Mérignac, Histoire de l’escrime (2 tomes), Imprimeries Réunies (1883)
**One must go to fence as one would go to dance; one must go to fence as though one were going to war.
Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone in The Mark of Zorro (1940)
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