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| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. |
| Gentility |
| How weak a thing is gentility, if it wants virtue. Fuller. | 1 |
| There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel. Hazlitt. | 2 |
| I would have you not stand so much on your gentility, which is an airy and mere borrowed thing from dead men’s dust and bones; and none of yours except you make and hold it. Ben Jonson. | 3 |
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