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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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What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

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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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A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.

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I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

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

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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

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Of all the fair resort of gentlemen That every day with parle encounter me, In thy opinion which is worthiest love?

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The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.

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In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

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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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A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

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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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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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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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When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

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

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The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.

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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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