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True Gentlemen, all...

I enjoy this forum because it is one of the few places on the web where men and women from all walks of life may share ideas relating to some of their common interests, i.e., NWC and music, without the pettiness, vulgarity, filth and "flame wars" that are found in almost all other forums.

I wish to express my thanks to NWC and to all the "True Gentlemen" (and ladies) that post here and who make this site unique in my experience.

Thanks to you all for being such nice folks!

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"The True Gentleman"

The true gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness, but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.

-John Walter Wayland

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