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The Thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be King Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor.

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Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

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Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

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I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.

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I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

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I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.

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You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for a gentleman.

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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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I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the streets, because a gentleman does not do those things either. I would as soon do the one as the other sort of thing--it is all a matter of harmony and good taste.

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Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

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We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.

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A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

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A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

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Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

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The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

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In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

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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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When I look in the mirror, I see a gentleman getting a little older and a little wiser.

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The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.

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What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

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