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• It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the… — Washington Irving
• Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket. — Ambrose Bierce
• Just as many who were brought up to think of God as a bearded old gentleman sitting on a cloud decided that… — N. T. Wright
• From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink… — W.N.P. Barbellion
• When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few… — Josef Koudelka
• PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop… — Ambrose Bierce
• I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty… — Charles Spurgeon
• Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree… — Stephen Leacock
• Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent… — Susanna Clarke
• As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose.… — Robert Fulghum
• It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that… — E. M. Forster
• I'll sing you a new ballad, andI'll warrant it first-rate, Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate;… — Charles Dickens

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