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I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

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I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.

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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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The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

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A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.

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Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

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

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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

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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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In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

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As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant.

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Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".

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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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A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

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And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.

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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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When I look in the mirror, I see a gentleman getting a little older and a little wiser.

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

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