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"It is almost a 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."
"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad."
"Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman."
"It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping."
Explore more quotes by Gerard Manley Hopkins
"It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither."
"Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion."
"I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession."
"Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing."
"What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet."
"By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind."
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