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Gentlemen

(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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"Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country."
— George Washington
"Don't go looking for boys in the darkThey will say pretty things thenleave you with scars.Do go looking for boys in the parkFor that is where the true gentlemen are."
— Anna Godbersen
"Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence."
— Vince Lombardi
"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
— Theodore Roosevelt
"To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know."
— Socrates

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