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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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Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.


George R. R. Martin
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Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.
Helen Rowland
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Donald Trump is a good man, and he will make a great president of the United States of America.


Mike Pence
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My dad is such a good man, hard-working.


Kelly Reilly
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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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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.


Sophocles
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The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth
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I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.


Euripides
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When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.
Gerrit Smith
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Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.


Ralph Steadman
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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
The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
Johnny Cash
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Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.


Thomas Paine
I don't want to impose rules on people, but you have only a short window, and you're sorely mistaken if you think you can put off having a family. It's very hard to find a good man, and it's never a 'good time' to have a baby if you have a career.
Mika Brzezinski
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Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.


Hesiod
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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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I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive. It is already enormously great, as every man of every party must acknowledge, if he would candidly express his sentiments.
John C. Calhoun
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Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Aldous Huxley
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
Rafe Spall
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