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“If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.” quote by John Keegan — Download Open image

“If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.”

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We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now pitifully small and has been reduced in size by the current Government, seeking economies to finance its social programmes. Fine while there is no threat to our security. But what use would schools and hospitals be…

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“An English gentleman is someone who knows exactly when to stop being one.”

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“Mr Kingsley begins then by exclaiming- 'O the chicanery, the wholesale fraud, the vile hypocrisy, the conscience-killing tyranny of Rome! We have not far to seek for an evidence of it. There's Father Newman to wit: one living specimen is worth a hundred dead ones. He, a Priest writing of Priests, tells us that lying is never any harm.' I…

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In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English gentlemanliness and…

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I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.

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David Bowie is the quintessential English gentleman and, of course, a musical and generational institution. I only played support for him for one night…

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If there was such a thing as a typical English gentleman in rock music, then it was Jon Lord.

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“And you call yourself an English gentleman,' she exclaimed, savagely. 'No, that's a thing I've never done in all my life.”

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He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of narrow and poltroon friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity, bounty and generous honesty are the gems of noble minds, wherein (to derogate from…

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