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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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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 with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

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The devil is a gentleman.

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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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Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

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

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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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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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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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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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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

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

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

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

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What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

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

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

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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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