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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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"It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer."

"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."

"A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on."
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"In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing."

"It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience."

"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."

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

"Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them."
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