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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. ↗

— Washington Irving

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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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