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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

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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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I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.

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

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

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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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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

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

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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

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

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We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

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The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

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

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A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

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Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

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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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