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

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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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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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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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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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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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The devil is a gentleman.

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As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant.

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

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He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.

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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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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 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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My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have.

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A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.

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

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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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