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Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

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

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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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The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

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

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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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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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The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

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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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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

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

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

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

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