By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind. (Gerard Manley Hopkins)

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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