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

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Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest.
Endurance
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley

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When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?
Inequality
John Ball

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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Absence
Walter Benjamin

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Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
Tenderness
Hugh Blair

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A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.
Law and Lawyers
Lord Henry P. Brougham

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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
Greed
Lord Byron

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Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
Profanity
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
Fathers
Lydia M. Child

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Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
Force
Pierre Corneille

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I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
Gentlemen
Charles Dickens

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The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
Gentlemen
Charles Dickens

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Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
Science and Scientists
Emily Dickinson

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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Gentlemen
Frederick Douglass

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Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
Men
George Eliot

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Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy.
Gentlemen
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
Gentlemen
English Proverb

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Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.
Gentlemen
Edward Fox

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Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Law and Lawyers
Benjamin Franklin

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Service
Mahatma Gandhi

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You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.
Insults
Judge Hall

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There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
Gentleness
Han Suyin

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
Leaders and Leadership
George Herbert

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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
God
George Herbert

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Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Modesty
Oliver Herford

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun