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I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.

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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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The devil is a gentleman.

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A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

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

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

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

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..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

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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 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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When I look in the mirror, I see a gentleman getting a little older and a little wiser.

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Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

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What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

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

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