"By the by if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind."
— Gentlemen

January 1, 1970

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Gerard Manley Hopkins, letter to Robert Bridges (3 February 1883), in The Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges, ed. C. C. Abbott (Oxford University Press, 1935), p. 176.