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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible. -- Woodrow Wilson
The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes. -- George Eliot
I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world. -- Joseph Addison
The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money. -- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain. -- Joshua Slocum
Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit. -- E. F. Benson
I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews. -- Benjamin Franklin

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