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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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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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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

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

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

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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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..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

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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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A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

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And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.

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

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The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.

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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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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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Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

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

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A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.

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

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