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American gentleman are not exactly gentlemen....(They have) a want of thorough self-contained self respect, which belongs to men who are born gentlemen of good ancestors, educated properly, with sufficient estate and who know for certain their place and that of others.

— Daniel Curtis, who left the US. in 1877 to live in Venice  

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