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

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

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The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.” (Analects 4.9)

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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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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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We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.

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

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

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

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A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?

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

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

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

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

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