#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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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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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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Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

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Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents. ↗

— Roger Moore

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A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. ↗

— Plato

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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. ↗

— William James

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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. ↗

— William James

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