Captain Thomas

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“Now that I had heard a part of his history, he appeared singularly destitute,—a captain without any vessel, only a greatcoat! and that perhaps a borrowed one! Not even a dog followed him; only his title stuck to him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.”
—18th century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)