"If ye loved him, he must ha' been a good man.' 'Yes, he...was.' 'Then I shall do my best to honor his spirit by serving his wife."
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"A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good."
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"The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable."
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"The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them."
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"Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot."
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"I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being."
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"The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave."
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"Though I know that he had something to do with the attack simulation, and with all those deaths, I find it difficult to pair those actions with the man I see in front of me. I wonder if this is how it is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likeable as good men."
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"I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men."
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"The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed."
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"He is a good man who can receive a gift well."
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"He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction, and guards others from delusion; but steadiness of belief, and boldness of profession, are yet only part of the form of godliness."
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"Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies."
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"Forget love. Try good manners."
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"My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win."
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"I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that."
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"The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him."
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"It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men."
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"Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard."
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"Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good."
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