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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

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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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Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.

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A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.

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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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The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond — sometimes better; as in the present case, where his bond might prove but a doubtful sort of security.

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

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A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.

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

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

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

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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

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Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.

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

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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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