Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
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I was always the Southern gentleman.
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I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
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Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.
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The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.
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The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
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My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.
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We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
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The learning of the gentleman enters through his ears, fastens to his heart, spreads through his four limbs, and manifests itself in his actions. ... The learning of the petty person enters through his ears and passes out his mouth. From mouth to ears is only four inches—how could it be enough to improve a whole body much larger than that?
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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.
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The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.
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The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.
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Exactly what useful work did those stockbrokers do to gain their enormous wealth, other than to exploit the people who work in industry, to take their money away and to make no useful contribution to society? Does the hon. Gentleman think that the working people of London are so stupid as not to realise that stockbrokers are parasites?
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No, there is nothing at all funny in poverty-to the poor. It is hell upon earth to a sensitive man; and many a brave gentleman who would have faced the labors of Hercules has had his heart broken by its petty miseries.
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A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.
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Like most people, I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on, people tend not to guess that.
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If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination.
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The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.
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Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
