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"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad."
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"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out."
"It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain."
"A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on."
"Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman."
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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
"This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."
"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."
"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."
"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him."
"There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains."
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