A GENTLEMAN.
What is it to be a gentleman? it is to be honest, to lie gentle, to be generous, to be brave, lo be wise, and possessing all these qualities, to exercise them, in the most graceful outward manner. He should l>e a leva I son and a true husband; his life should be decent: and his hills should be paid, bis tastes should be elegant, his aims in life lofty and noble. He should have the esteem of bin fellow-citizens, and the love of Ids fireside ; be should bear good fortune, suffer evil with constancy, and through good and evil always maintain truth. The last is the supreme ordeal and test. No man can be accepted as a true gentleman who lias not learnt what a noble thing it is to suffer and be strong. Not on the yacht, but on the lifeboat ; not on parade, but marching in weariness and waste through the enemy’s land: not in prosperitv, but in adversity can there be a sure discernment between tin* coward and the hero, the deceitful and the honest, the carnal and the spiritual man I —Thackera v.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17526, 1 May 1925, Page 8
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190A GENTLEMAN. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17526, 1 May 1925, Page 8
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