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good Samaritan

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a good Samaritan
someone who tries to help people who have problems. He's such a good Samaritan. He used to go shopping for my gran when she was ill.
See also: good

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He sat writing in the room with the deadly statistical clock, proving something no doubt - probably, in the main, that the Good Samaritan was a Bad Economist.
The poor man blest him for it, and he blest the poor man, and was so like the Good Samaritan that he gave him money to refresh both himself and his horse, and told him, that if he loved himself, he should be merciful to his beast.
I have simply done my best to play the Good Samaritan.
 
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