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Gentleman

(noun) A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; an armiferous man ranking below a knight. Example: "Being a gentleman, Robert was entitled to shove other commoners into the gongpit but he still had to jump out of the way of the knights to avoid the same fate himself."

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"A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure."
— Charlie Chaplin
"He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal."
— Jane Austen
"A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart."
— Shannon L. Alder
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen
"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out."
— George Bernard Shaw
"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's."
— Mark Twain

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