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"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad."
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"It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer."

"It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen."

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

"Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman."

"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out."
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"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."

"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads."

"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."

"Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time."

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them."
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