#gentle

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

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I am at heart a gentleman. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! ↗

— Barry Cornwall

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In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton. ↗

— Thomas Day

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An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman. ↗

— David Walliams

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He is every other inch a gentleman. ↗

— Rebecca West

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I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

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It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent. ↗

— Debra Winger

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