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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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Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

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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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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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If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

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

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

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

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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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A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.

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

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

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In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

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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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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

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

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