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A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.
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gentleman
gentlemen
inspirational
manners
motivational
politeness
chivalry
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Haruki Murakami |
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He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.
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chivalry
god
inspirational
religion
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Lao Tzu |
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What Melanie did was no more than all Southern girls were taught to do: to make those about them feel at ease and pleased with themselves. It was this happy feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land in which men were contented, uncontradicted, and safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave the ladies everything in the world, except credit for having intelligence. Scarlett exercised the same charms as Melanie but with a studied artistry and consummate skill. The difference between the two girls lay in the fact that Melanie spoke kind and flattering words from a desire to make people happy, if only temporarily, and Scarlett never did it except to further her own aims.
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chivalry
flattery
selfishness
southern-women
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Margaret Mitchell |
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A proper Irishman always does what a lady asks him. Sure an' it's been the ruin av us. We're at the mercy av the petticoats.
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chivalry
irish
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L.M. Montgomery |
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The plain of Bedegraine was a forest of pavilions. They looked like old-fashioned bathing tents, and were every colour of the rainbow. ... There were heraldic devices worked or stamped on the sides ... Then there were pennons floating from the tops of the tents, and sheaves of spears leaning against them. The more sporting barons had shields or huge copper basins outside their front doors, and all you had to do was to give a thump on one of these with the butt-end of your spear, for the baron to come out like an angry bee and have a fight with you, almost before the resounding boom had died away. Sir Dinadain, who was a cheerful man, had hung a chamber-pot outside his.
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chivalry
humour
knights
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T.H. White |
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Avventurose eta e benedette quelle che non seppero la spaventevole furia di queste indemoniate macchine dell'artiglieria, l'inventore delle quali io ritengo che sia nell'inferno a ricevere il guiderdone del suo diabolico ritrovato, per mezzo del quale fece si che un ignobile e codardo braccio possa toglier la vita a un prode cavaliere.
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chivalry
knight
sword
war
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
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For any man may be a king in that life in which he is placed if so be he may draw forth the sword of success from out of the iron of circumstance. Where fore when your time of assay cometh, I do hope it may be with you as it was with Arthur that day, and that ye too may achieve success with entire satisfaction unto yourself and to your great glory and perfect happiness.
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chivalry
howard-pyle
king
knight
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Howard Pyle |
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Though he was her enemy, he treated her with unfailing courtesy.
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chivalry
courtesy
enemy
gentleman
jacqueline-carey
the-sundering
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Jacqueline Carey |
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Vossignoria pertanto creda a me e, come le ho detto gia prima, legga di questi libri e vedra come le bandiscono la malinconia che caso mai avesse e le fanno migliore il carattere se mai l'abbia guasto. Per parte mia le so dire che da quando sono cavaliere errante sono valoroso, garbato, liberale, bennato, magnanimo, cortese, mite, paziente, tollerante di fatiche, di prigionie, d'incantagioni.
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chivalry
italian
literature
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |