The real gentleman is one who is gentle in everything, at least in everything that depends on himself in carriage, temper, constructions, aims, desires. He is mild, calm, quiet, even temperate not hasty in judgment, not exorbitant in ambition, not overbearing, not proud, not rapacious, not oppressive.
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