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

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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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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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I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.

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

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

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

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

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Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish.

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Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.

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

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

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The devil is a gentleman.

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