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I want to be a gentleman. Not a reddit fedora fag but a proper gentleman. Someone who excels and rises above degeneracy.

I'm already reading Letters to his son on the art of becoming a man the world and a gentleman.

I'm a Christian (aspiring to live a Christian life anyway) And have sinned plenty in the past but I'm ready to live a life devoted to God.

>> No.9003855

Everyone has a different understanding of what a "gentleman" is.

For example, according to you, a gentleman is someone who believes in magic, apparently.

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>>9003855

>> No.9003920

>>9003805
If you're American, you might well want Emily Post.
Norbert Elias has a history of etiquette which is quite worthwhile too.

Augustine's Confessions or Wilde's De profundis might help on the Christian redemption route.

Alan Flusser for style.

>> No.9003927

Sermon on the Mount by Jesus and Calvin's Institutes, though bear in mind Calvin's applications have to be taken with a grain of salt. Holiness by J.C. Ryle is a great book as well.

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>>9003805

>> No.9004132

>>9003805
One is born a gentleman, that is, born in an aristocratic (patrician, if you will) family and educated as one from the very start. That doesn't mean you can't and shouldn't be a Christian or apply yourself to proper etiquette.

>> No.9004136

>>9003805
read plato
read proverbs
read the gospels

>> No.9004139

>>9004132
>anon does not know a barrister is a gentleman by law and had to spend a lot of time as a slaving solicitor to get there, being neither christian nor genteel
americans. i could tell before i got to the absence of the oxford comma

>> No.9004309

>>9003805
You are just going to be a fedora with a cross around your neck m8

>> No.9004392

Rumi - The Book of Love
Maya Angelou's Poetry
Tennesse Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire
Charles Bukowski's Poetry
Sylvia Plath's Poetry
Asimov's Foundation Trilogy

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>>9003805

How ironic that one "devoted" to a history of violence and brutality desires to call himself a gentle man of all things

>> No.9004723

>>9004139
>gentleman by law
No such thing. Gentlemen are not created by bourgeois law.

>> No.9005258

>>9003855
Still, could be worse. Could be Amazing Atheist and his Banana Adventures of Doom.

>> No.9005283

>>9004723
you've probably never heard this sound to understand it fully, but I've just sighed the sigh of someone who realises they should explain the history of English law since the magna carta to an American but it involves explaining the history of English law since the magna carta to an American.

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This is not half bad.

>> No.9005428

>>9003805
The "Book of the Courtier" of Baldassarre Castiglione.
The "Galateo" of Giovanni della Casa.

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>>9003805
How about reading some Stoic and/or Taoist philosophy and learn to be something for its own sake rather than to impress people.

>>9003855
>>9004132
>>9004139
>>9004431
>>9004723

>> No.9006029

>>9004132
That's not a gentleman, that's just a rich guy. Perfectly possible to be upper-class and a total boor.