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institutionally structured--like New England.
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And these southern gentlemen really
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did enjoy great display in their homes,
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in their clothing, in their style of living.
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They spent their leisure time gambling,
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cock fighting, horse racing and, as that diarist suggests,
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drinking.
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Now generally speaking,
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education was not
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as important in the South as in the North,
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which is not to say
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gentlemen were expected to be educated.