A gentleman values his privacy and prefers private life over public life. This is in large part because the more public an act becomes,
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Thomas Carlyle
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
Chinese response to US government threats to ban them from California in 1852
In the important matters we are good men. We honor our parents; we take care of our children, we are industrious and peaceable; we