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Gentlemanliness, Part IV

Gentlemanliness, Part IV

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Jeremy Northam as Mr Knightley, Emma (1996)

I’ve come to enjoy writing this series of notes on gentlemanliness. Because most of the guidebooks on the subject are worthless, I thought I’d take a stab at it myself. The aim is to clarify my own thoughts on how I want to conduct myself—and to present a more aspirational vision of gentlemanliness than the mere niceness and rule-following promoted by longhouse enthusiasts.

See Parts I, II, and III if you haven’t already. Here goes Part IV:

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