#good man

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win. ↗

— Tom Hicks

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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

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One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all. ↗

— Dixie Carter

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He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame. ↗

— June Carter Cash

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An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly. ↗

— George R. R. Martin

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. ↗

— Ross Perot

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