#benevolent

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator. ↗

— Richard Branson

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He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent. ↗

— Patrick Marber

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I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be. ↗

— Tom Baker

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Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror. ↗

— Thomas Day

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. ↗

— Voltaire

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We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing. ↗

— Terrence Howard

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To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether. ↗

— James Payn

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