“Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.”
The Pleasure of Honesty (1917), trans. William Murray http://encarta.msn.com/quote_561560170/Behavior_Anyone_can_be_heroic_from_time_to_time_but_a.html
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