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The President

CHAPTER III
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HOW MR.

GWYNN DINED WITH THE HARLEYS Any man who says that he is a gentleman is not a gentleman.

A gentleman no more tells you that he is a gentleman than a brave man tells you he is brave.

Gentility is a quality which the possessor never seeks to establish as his own by word of mouth; he leaves it to inference and the rule has no exception.

This brilliant speechlessness arises not through modesty, but ignorance.


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