“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“A gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, book The Gambler
The Gambler (1866)
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