"I know it's the gentlemanly thing to let the wife file. But, then, everybody knows I'm no gentleman."
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"Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon"
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"The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent."
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"Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love."
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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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"If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and faithfulness to be fundamental, has no friends who are not like him, and when he has made mistakes, he is not afraid of correcting them."
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"Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians."
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"All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist."
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"You this day, gentlemen, assume new characters, enter into new relations, and consequently incur new duties. You have, by the favor of Providence and the attention of your friends, received a public education, the purpose whereof hath been to qualify you the better to serve your Creator and your country."
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"Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man."
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"Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals."
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"He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal."
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"Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman."
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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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"The prince of darkness is a gentleman!"
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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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"Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen."
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"The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!"
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"Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen."
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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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