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A man is not made chivalrous by an extensive education. A college degree and advanced academic achievement are as often impediments to chivalry as they are inducements to it.
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There have always been two senses of the word gentleman: the fine man of high birth and the fine man of good character.
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Chivalry combined military, religious, and social concepts into a unified way of life.
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Men and women don’t have to be exactly equal, but a gentleman does have to allow a woman to be what she wants to be.
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I propose three models—archetypes if you like—that comprise the dimensions of a chivalrous gentleman’s character: the warrior, the lover, and the monk.
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From its earliest days, America has been an incubator of moral ambition.
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A gentleman is contemplative in that he never ceases to refine his sense of reality.
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Still, taking the good with the bad, chivalry, like Christianity, had a healthy effect upon Western man.
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It is remarkable that chivalry, no matter how actual or merely aspirational it was in its own day, appeared when it did—that it appeared at all!
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