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Un arrangement honnete sied bien a un galant homme.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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Now that you are at Naples, you pass part of your time there en honnete homme, da garbato cavaliere, in the court and the best companies.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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Une honnete debauche, une jolie debauche; βAn agreeable rake, a man of pleasure.β
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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All fat and fair, I presume; too proud and too cold to make advances, but, at the same time, too well-bred and too warm to reject them, when made by un honnete homme avec des manieres.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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This is what the French call un procede honnete et galant, to PIQUE yourself upon showing particular civilities to a man, to whom lesser minds would, in the same case, show dislike, or perhaps rudeness.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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Voyez vous encore jour, a quelque arrangement honnete?
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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Endeavor to please others, and divert yourself as much as ever you can, in honnete et galant homme.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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Monsieur de Maupertius (whom I hope you will get acquainted with) is, what one rarely meets with, deep in philosophy and, mathematics, and yet honnete et aimable homme: Algarotti is young Fontenelle.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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Her brother is also a capital fellow β un parfait honnete homme.
Rudin 2003
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J'ai ete honnete avec vous, et je n'ai aucun regret.
An Address Presented During the 1984 Canadian General Election 1984
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