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103 quotesBe smart, be intelligent and be informed.
Advice
Tony Alesandra
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A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
Gentlemen
Fred A. Allen
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No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Appreciation
St. Ambrose
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Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest.
Endurance
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
Diplomacy
Walter Bagehot
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When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?
Inequality
John Ball
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The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Alben W. Barkley
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The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
Christians and Christianity
Henry Ward Beecher
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Absence
Walter Benjamin
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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
Ignorance
Ernest Bevin
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Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
Tenderness
Hugh Blair
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The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
Thoughts and Thinking
Christian Nevell Bovee
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A lawyer is a gentlemen that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it to himself.
Law and Lawyers
Lord Henry P. Brougham
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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
Greed
Lord Byron
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Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
Profanity
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
Opinions
John Jay Chapman
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
Fathers
Lydia M. Child
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Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.
Family
Chinese Proverb
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Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
Force
Pierre Corneille
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I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
Gentlemen
Charles Dickens
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The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
Gentlemen
Charles Dickens
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Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
Science and Scientists
Emily Dickinson
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Gentlemen
Frederick Douglass
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Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
Efficiency
David Dunham
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun