A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in … - William Hazlitt

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When I heard that our bodies change when we get a bit older, I thought, oh good, now I'll go back to being a boy again. But it didn't happen like that.

William Hazlitt

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.

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