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• It is better to be good than original.
• We will take the good will for the deed.
• It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
  -- Oscar Wilde...
• So good it's better than itself.
• God considered not action, but the spirit of the action.
  It is the intention, not the deed, wherein the merit of praise of the doer consists....
• An ill agreement is better than a good judgement. -- Proverb
• A good deed never goes unpunished. -- Gore Vidal
• No good deed goes unpunished. -- Clare Boothe Luce