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gentleman
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman. Charles Dickens
gentleman cost pedants
The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided they are valued not for themselves alone, which would make a pedant, but as a foundation for further acquirements. Charles Caleb Colton
gentleman knaves wealth
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman. Charles Caleb Colton
gentleman deception fiction
"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more." Charles Dickens
gentleman sometimes
The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better. Charles Dickens
gentleman kind
He's no kind of gentleman. That's all right. I'm no kind of lady. Caitlin Kittredge
gentleman principles looks
Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles. Caleb Cushing
gentleman may venture
If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman ... Catherine the Great
gentleman profanity swearing
When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths. William Shakespeare
height influence reader
I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader. Caitlin Flanagan
height scared
I'm scared shitless of heights. Mark Cuban
height would-be folly
To take my work seriously would be the height of folly. Edward Gorey
height firsts poet
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet. August Wilson
height depth literature
You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God. Edwin Louis Cole
height moral scales
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations. Agnes Repplier
height fifth-grade growing
I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade. Billy Crystal
height stills terrified
I'm still pretty terrified of heights. Jamie Bell
height particular weight
There is no such thing as a 'correct' weight for any particular height - they are only averages. Henry Beard
obscurity language obscenity
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. Edward Gibbon
obscurity problem bigs
The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity. Cory Doctorow
obscurity
Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time. Carrie Fisher
obscurity poverty life-is
Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. Jim Carrey
obscurity records needs
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity. Elvis Costello
obscurity incapacity proportion
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity. Quintilian
obscurity unusual reefs
Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef. Julius Caesar
obscurity wells
He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. Ovid
obscurity human-life brevity
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life Protagoras