This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.
It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.
The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
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