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We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

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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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A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

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A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

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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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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 true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.

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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 devil is a gentleman.

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A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

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

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If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

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Of all the fair resort of gentlemen That every day with parle encounter me, In thy opinion which is worthiest love?

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I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the streets, because a gentleman does not do those things either. I would as soon do the one as the other sort of thing--it is all a matter of harmony and good taste.

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My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.

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I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

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The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.

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What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

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