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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 The GIGA name and the GIGA logo are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. GIGA-USA and GIGA-USA.COM are servicemarks of the domain owner. Copyright © 1999-2018 John C. Shepard. All Rights Reserved. Last Revised: 2018 December 9 Support GIGA.  Buy something from Amazon.

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