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

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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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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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A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

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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 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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No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

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

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

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These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.

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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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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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Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

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

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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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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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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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