"Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman: elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings!"
— Gentlemen

January 1, 1970

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William Hazlitt, "On the Look of a Gentleman", in The London Magazine (January 1821), p. 39; reprinted in The Plain Speaker (London: Henry Colburn, 1826), p. 39.