"A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way."
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"The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight."
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"When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?"
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"If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly."
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"Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?"
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"A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails."
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"The refuge from pessimism is the good men and women at any time existing in the world, -they keep faith and happiness alive."
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"Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love"
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"Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man."
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"My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient."
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"What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge?"
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"As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste."
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"There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers."
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"The natural desire of good men is knowledge."
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"It is a happy woman when the spirit time is come, that finds herself in the presence of a good man."
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"A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods."
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"Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an artificial invention to that purpose. The same may be said of allegiance, of the laws of nations, of modesty, and of good manners. All these are mere human contrivances for the interest of society."
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"An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking."
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"The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it."
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"It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men."
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