“It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.”
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English philosopher 1944–2020Related quotes

“I have a nice home, the office is close by, and the pay is good.”
Quoted in Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye, Kenneth O'Donnell, Dave Powers, and Joseph McCarthy, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1970, page 262.
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“Sure, some people are nice. Real nice. Nice like carpets so you can walk all over them.”
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“That’s a nice little flip camera you got there? They’re good those.”
Dhani Harrison " Dhani Harrison 3/31/09 Los Angeles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-nsECK3Dl8" at Youtube.com, 3 April, 2009: at a Amoeba Records in Los Angeles.