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GENTILITY [ Also see Ancestry Aristocracy Gentlemen Gentleness Vulgarity ] Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.       - John Ciardi How weak a thing is gentility, if it wants virtue.       - Thomas Fuller (1) There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.       - William Hazlitt (1) I would have you not stand so much on your gentility, which is an airy and mere borrowed thing from dead men's dust and bones; and none of yours except you make and hold it.       - Ben Jonson Last Revised: 2008 April 9 Copyright © 1999-2008 John C. Shepard. All Rights Reserved. The GIGA name and logo are trademarks registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by John C. Shepard.  WWW.GIGA-USA.COM     Back to Top of Page

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