“To be a gentleman does not depend upon the tailor or the toilet. Good clothes are not good habits. A gentleman is just a gentle-man, — no more, no less; a diamond polished, that was first a diamond in the rough.”
Address at Burlington College, reported in Horace Mann, The Common School Journal (1847), p. 191.
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