A Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.
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It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.
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