GENTLEMEN


"Sadie, what is a gentleman?"



"Please, ma'am," she answered, "a gentleman's a man you don't know very

well."





Two characters in Jeffery Farnol's "Amateur Gentleman" give these

definitions of a gentleman:



"A gentleman is a fellow who goes to a university, but doesn't have to

learn anything; who goes out into the world, but doesn't have to work at

anything; and who has never been black-balled at any of the clubs."



"A gentleman is (I take it) one born with the God-like capacity to think

and feel for others, irrespective of their rank or condition.... One who

possesses an ideal so lofty, a mind so delicate, that it lifts him above

all things ignoble and base, yet strengthens his hands to raise those

who are fallen--no matter how low."



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