"gentleman and scholar" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2007 January 2, Alessandra Stanley, “Exposed: Celebrities, Tabloids and Sleaze!”, in New York Times",
          "text": "BBC America recently ran a documentary called “Paparazzi” that also disabused viewers of any lingering impression that gossip rags are run by gentlemen and scholars.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "1786, Robert Burns, The Twa Dogs",
          "text": "His locked, letter’d braw brass collar shew’d him the gentleman an’ scholar.",
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        "Alternative form of scholar and gentleman"
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  "word": "gentleman and scholar"
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          "ref": "2007 January 2, Alessandra Stanley, “Exposed: Celebrities, Tabloids and Sleaze!”, in New York Times",
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          "text": "His locked, letter’d braw brass collar shew’d him the gentleman an’ scholar.",
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