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A gentleman I could never make him, though I could make him a lord.

— James I of England

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Sir James Lawrence, On the Nobility of the British Gentry, 4th edition (London: James Fraser, 1840), p. 38; quoting from Londres et les Anglais (1804) by J. L. Ferri de St.-Constant.

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