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Good Man Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.
- The basis of good manners is self-reliance.
- Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed…
- The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious.…
- He is a good man who can receive a gift well.
- Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms…
- The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
- Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
- Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
More Good Man Quotes
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