“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
“A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 204
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