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A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.

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A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias. The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side.

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

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

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

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

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

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The Thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be King Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor.

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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

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The devil is a gentleman.

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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 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 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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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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