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

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The devil is a gentleman.

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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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Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

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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 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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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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The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

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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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A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

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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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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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Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

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

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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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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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