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- Feb 2021
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Trousers should shiver on the shoe but not break. —Arnold Bennett’s tailor
A gentleman: superficially perhaps, a man who never looks as if he’d just had his hair cut.
No gentleman can be without three copies of a book; one for show (and this he will probably keep at his country house), another for use, and a third at the service of his friends. —Richard Heber
Some great examples from Geoffrey Madan's notebooks
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