"The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George."
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"The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue."
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"Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things."
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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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"O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour."
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"My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have."
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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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"Of all the fair resort of gentlemen That every day with parle encounter me, In thy opinion which is worthiest love?"
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"The meanest inhabitants by their constant attendance generally form the majority and outvote the gentlemen, merchants and all the better Inhabitants!"
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"Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen."
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"These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts."
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"Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise."
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"In some ways, Valiant Gentlemen grows out of Tales of the New World, my collection of short stories about explorers who lived "great" lives, but whose experience of it was in the same register as all our lives are - we feel the same extent of human emotion regardless of how exceptional our actions are: nothing is more exceptional than one's own life."
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"A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene."
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"Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect."
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"God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy."
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"The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions."
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"The gentleman is a man of truth."
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"What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet."
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"A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience."
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