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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of good-will in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of good-will in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of good-will in a Sentence

  1. Benjamin Franklin:

    Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

  2. Hussein Al-Khunaizi:

    Good will and ill will are just two sides of the same card...

  3. Clive Staples Lewis:

    Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

  4. Lillian Hellman:

    Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

  5. Janet Mills:

    People of good will hold sincere beliefs on both sides of the issue.

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