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“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.”

World May Young Easy Pleasure Quality Concerned Fortune Improvement Gentleman Neglect Diversion Knowledge And Wisdom Young Gentlemen

Book:Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.”

“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.”

Ifs Play Use Young House Exercise Meetings Gentleman Gambling Cheater Young Gentlemen

Author:Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.”

World Should Hands Young Bears Safe Degrees Guides Gentleman Fence Thorough Skillful Thorough Knowledge Young Gentlemen

Author:John Locke

“Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.”

Ifs World Should May Together Young Class Honor Should Have Gentleman Motive Display Disputes Ardor Emulation Young Gentlemen

Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.”

Men Made Soul Young Wish Difficult Consciousness Knowing Tasks Gentleman Difficult Tasks Young Gentlemen

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“The young gentleman is correct," he said. Halt raised an eyebrow. "He may be correct, and he is undoubtedly young. But he's no gentleman." ~Halt and General Sapristi speaking of Will”

May Said Young Raised Gentleman Eyebrows Halt Young Gentlemen

Author:John Flanagan

“How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!”

Young Cases Judging Waste Bills Educational Gentleman Britain Stamina Great Britain Good Food Young Gentlemen

Book:Sammlung

Source: Sammlung

“I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."”

World Book Young Order Advice Style Ready Accounts Rounds University Gentleman Cousin Publish Voyages Urgency My Cousin Young Gentlemen

Book:Gulliver's Travels

Source: Gulliver's Travels

“The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.”

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Book:Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

“The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince... the masses. But the masses are slow moving, and they always require a certain time before they are ready even to notice a thing, and only after the simplest ideas are repeated thousands of times will the masses finally remember them.”

Ideas Remember Moving Young Purpose Certain Interesting Media Ready Mass Propaganda Gentleman Convince Distraction Simplest Young Gentlemen

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf