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Goodness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the tiresome category the public files you under once it suspects you are not so bad after all, and then it drops you.

Goodness (n.) means ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠giving out completely, yet so that the withdrawal leaves the recipient free — which is why God's omnipotence is his goodness.

Goodness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠open to anyone who wills it, but being bad always takes talent — which is why so many would rather be philosophers than Christians.

Goodness (n.) lived ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠wholly teaches the young that the pretense of living only for the good contains a considerable admixture of the ridiculous — the poets rightly give it to a half-wit.

Goodness (n.) may ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠only mean, in the few kind people one knows, that neither they nor I were ever led into the mortal spiritual danger that reveals on a huge scale what good or evil is in a man.