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A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

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Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

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The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.

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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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Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

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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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The devil is a gentleman.

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The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

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

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

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The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

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My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have.

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

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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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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

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Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".

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We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

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