"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."
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William Croswell Doane
William Croswell Doane (2 March 1832 – 17 May 1913) was the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany in the United States, from 1869 until his death in 1913.
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