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"It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain."
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"A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on."

"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out."

"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad."

"It is almost the 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."
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"Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for."

"Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it."

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

"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."

"To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living."

"If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar."

"A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise."
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