"No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!"
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"A gentleman can live through anything."
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"We must be gentle now we are gentlemen."
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"A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?"
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"A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves."
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"Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen."
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"In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen."
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"Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion."
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"If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear."
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"What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this."
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"We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?"
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"In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade."
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"Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him."
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"He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit."
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"No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady."
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"Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen."
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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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"When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman."
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"You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening."
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"Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on...none of you are safe."
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