"The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action."
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"A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth in modesty and faithfully completes it. This is indeed a gentleman."
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"Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish."
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"They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half."
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"All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards."
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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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"Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out and left? No? It’s because he doesn’t care! He’s in a room with a naked girl, he just won the lottery"
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"I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know."
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"Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets."
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"I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon."
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"The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments."
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"A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees."
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"Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth – actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested."
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"An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men."
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"I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman."
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"Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around."
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"The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action."
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"A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting."
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"In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral."
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"You'd be better served ifyou gave me a moment to regain my self-control and let me remove my boots. It's the least agentleman can do.""And you're such a gentleman.""Not with you, love. But I'm trying."
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