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"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out."
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"It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain."

"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 any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on."

"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad."
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"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything."

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

"You may remember that on earth-though of course we never confessed it-the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them."

"If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated sense of the best art of her time to enable her to make her house beautiful, she sets a standard for him against which very few women can struggle, besides effecting for him a disengagement of his affections, his sense of beauty, and his idealism from his specifically sexual impulses."
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