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• Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

  Caleb Cushing

  Government, People, Republican

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• I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.

  Daisy Ashford

  Nice, Ifs, Ladies And Gentlemen

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• You think that somehow they didn’t come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as not to understand what is going on in Washington, D.C.

  Eric Massa

  Thinking, Today, World

  "The Democrat Party is a Gulag". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 8, 2010.

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• I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

  Otis Blackwell

  Vegas, Publishing House, Fever

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• We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

  Jack Cade

  Kings, Men, Law

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• While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

  George Combe

  Character, Law, Scotland

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• Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

  Caleb Cushing

  Looks, Done, Facts

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• I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.

  George Combe

  Fear, Air, Alarms

  George Combe (1841). “Notes on the United States of North America: During a Phrenological Visit in 1838-9-40”, p.85

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• IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

  Robert Walpole

  Liberty, Should, Estates

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• A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.

  Anuj

  Attitude, Mistake, Self

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• It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

  Karel Capek

  Philosophy, Medicine, Soma

  "R.U.R". Play by Karel Capek, 1920.

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• Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.

  Edmund Burke

  Kings, May, Noblemen

  Letter to William Smith, 29 January 1795, in 'The Correspondence of Edmund Burke' vol. 8 (1969)

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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.

  Charles Dickens

  Sometimes

  "Children's Tales from Dickens – The Great Classics & The Wonderful Stories for Children".

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• The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.

  Puzant Kevork Thomajan

  Defense, Tact, True Gentleman

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• There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Army, Navy, Seamen

  "History of England". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, Volume I, Chapter III, Part XXXII, 1848.

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• A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Men, Hats

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• I am at heart a gentleman.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Heart

  "Still modern after all these years ... Marlene Dietrich's ageless charisma" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2017.

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• A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Drawing, May

  Charles Kingsley (2016). “The Water Babies”, p.82, Charles Kingsley

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• It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Comeback, Hard

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

  John Henry Newman

  Life, Success, Pain

  'The Idea of a University' (1852) 'Knowledge and Religious Duty'

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• A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.

  H. L. Mencken

  Strikes, Provocation

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

  Vince Gill

  Southern, Engagement, Southern Gentleman

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• A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Humor, Heaven

  "A Little Book in C Major".

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• The devil is a gentleman.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Devil, Good And Evil

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