Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
E. M. Forster
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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.
Xun Kuang
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Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.
Orlando Bloom
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
Walter Bagehot
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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.
Xun Kuang
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I was always the Southern gentleman.
Lance Bass NSYNC
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I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Samuel Johnson
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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.
Earl Blumenauer
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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.
Patrick Macnee
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The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
Fisher Ames
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My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.
Irina Shayk
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We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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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?
Xun Kuang
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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.
Luigi Pirandello
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When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an actor. What a cheap shot.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.
Enzo Ferrari
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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.
Anna Kendrick
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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?
Jeremy Corbyn
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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
Napoleon Hill
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The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The class distinctions simply result from the different degrees of success with which men have availed themselves of the chances which were presented to them. Instead of endeavoring to redistribute the acquisitions which have been made between the existing classes, our aim should be to increase, multiply, and extend the chances.
William Graham Sumner
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Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.
H. H. Asquith
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Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin