"He is every other inch a gentleman."
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"You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world."
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"For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others."
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"An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be."
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"A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman."
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"[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh."
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"The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond — sometimes better; as in the present case, where his bond might prove but a doubtful sort of security."
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"A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me."
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"The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.” (Analects 4.9)"
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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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"The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable."
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"On the way up here to the podium, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Governor, you are as good a politician as you were an actor." What a cheap shot."
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"When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths."
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"The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible."
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"Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink."
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"Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously."
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"If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver."
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"A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms."
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"Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard."
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"A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds."
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