About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

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The quote says that men think that they are owed certain things in life. Men feel this way because they have spent so much money on the education of being a gentleman, so now they believe it is okay to be entitled. This is the same as people who shop at expensive stores all of the time. They think that they owe it to themselves to pay higher prices. They feel like they deserve expensive things because they have paid for their education.

Source: Goodbye To All That

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