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• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
• Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
• No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot
• 'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest;… — Cyrano de Bergerac
• With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a… — Otto von Bismarck
• The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and… — Malin Akerman
• In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my… — Carol Burnett
• If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business,… — Lord Byron
• A gentleman never talks about his tailor. — Nick Cave
• A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on. — Fred Allen
• The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a… — Raymond Chandler
• A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. — Charlie Chaplin

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