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• There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Teach

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• Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Making Money, Prosperity, Whole

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• He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Perfect, Intimacy, Enjoy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1849). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think”, p.127

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• Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  World, Ifs, Cant

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• It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Believe, Difficult, Libertine

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• The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Civilization, Grace

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3070, Delphi Classics

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• If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Sex, Wall, Business

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• Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

  Orlando Bloom

  Goal, Worthy

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• We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.

  William Shakespeare

  Gentle, Gentleness

  William Shakespeare (1815). “A Select British Theatre: Containing All the Plays Formerly Adapted to the Stage”

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• The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.

  Charles Tupper

  Interrogation, Spares, Ifs

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• No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

  Walter Bagehot

  Sorry, Real, Political

  'Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen' (1858) 'The First Edinburgh Reviewers'

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• A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Lonely, Travel, Loneliness

  "Charlie Chaplin's Los Angeles: a black and white odyssey" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2013.

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• All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Reality, Ideas, Giving

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

  William Congreve

  College, Littles, Enough

  'Love for Love' (1695) act 5, sc. 3

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• Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

  William Ralph Inge

  Prayer, Mean, Opportunity

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• Gentlemen prefer blondes.

  Anita Loos

  Blonde, Classic, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

  Title of book (1925)

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• A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Eye, Absent, Merciful

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.15, Sophia Institute Press

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• Gentlemen prefer bonds.

  Andrew Mellon

  Ties, Preference

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• I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

  Maria Mitchell

  Travel, Men, Two

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• The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

  James Otis

  Country, Sacrifice, Men

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• I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

  Ezra Pound

  Trust, Training, Literature

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• Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

  Herbert Spencer

  Marriage, Noses, Fingers

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• The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Guy, Want, Species

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, p. 120, 1954.

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• The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.

  Charles Perrault

  Daughter, Mother, World

  Charles Perrault (1942). “The Tales of Mother Goose as First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Girl, Morning, Night

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.51, Open Road Media

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