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Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of… — Kwame Nkrumah
When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away.… — Josephine Baker
Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of… — Henry Campbell-Bannerman
I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained,… — Dorothea Dix
REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of… — Ambrose Bierce
If your kitchen table is like mine, you sit there at night before you put the kids to bed and you talk about what you… — Joe Biden
To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the things… — Richard Bausch
No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady. — Keith Miller
In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries… — Oswald Spengler
On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong.… — Confucius
Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office. — Ambrose Bierce
People talk about random acts of kindness, and that goes back to the measure of being gentlemanly again. It's about having consideration for others, and… — Simon Baker
A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income… — William Maxwell
You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world. — Tom Ford
Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman. — Benjamin Disraeli
What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and,… — William Makepeace Thackeray
You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue. — Victor Hugo
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is… — William Hazlitt
Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth, came Habraham, Moyses, Aron and the profettys; and also the kyng of the right line of Mary, of… — Unknown Author
They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for his integrity and judgment and iron will; but… — Unknown Author
Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God. — Ambrose
The announcement that there is a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen television series hasn't caused me to drastically alter my opinions. Now it seems they are… — Alan Moore
Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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