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As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant.

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Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish.

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A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting.

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A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

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Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.

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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

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The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.” (Analects 4.9)

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Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.

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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

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These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.

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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

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Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.

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I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.

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He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.

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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

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The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

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Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

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My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.

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