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

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

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

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I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

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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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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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A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

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The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.

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

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

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

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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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The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.

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