milk of human kindness

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Fig. natural kindness and sympathy shown to others. (From Shakespeare's play Macbeth, I. v.) Mary is completely hard and selfish—she doesn't have the milk of human kindness in her. Roger is too full of the milk of human kindness and people take advantage of him.

See also: human, kindness, milk

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But in Jane the milk of human kindness had not been curdled by years of matrimonial bickerings. Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context , and his shining face suffused with gladness, and his capacious waistcoat smiling in every wrinkle, and his jovial humour peeping from under the table in the very plumpness of his legs; a sight to turn the vinegar of misanthropy into purest milk of human kindness. Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context It is a fact that even the poor gardener's wife, who had nursed madame's child, was never paid after the first six months for that supply of the milk of human kindness with which she had furnished the lusty and healthy little Rawdon. Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context			midas middle middle ground middle of nowhere middle-of-the-road midnight midst might might and main might as well might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb might could might is right Might makes right might nigh mighty migrate migrate between some place and some place else mile mile a minute mileage milestone in life militate against milk milk for milk of human kindness mill mill around mill cannot grind with water that is past million million miles away mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small millstone millstone about neck mince mince words mind mind goes blank mind over matter mind own business Mind own business! mind p's and q's Mind step mind the store mind you Mind your own beeswax Mind your own business minded minding my own business mine mine for			milk letdown milk letdown milk letdown failure milk letdown failure milk letdown failure milk letdown failure milk line milk line milk line milk line milk line milk lipid milk lipid milk lipid milk lipid Milk Lipid Globule Membrane Milk Marketing Board Milk meats Milk men milk meter milk meter milk meter milk meter Milk mirror Milk molar Milk Nitrogen Efficiency Milk nurse Milk nurse Milk of amnesia Milk of bismuth milk of human kindness Milk of lime Milk of lime Milk of lime milk of magnesia milk of magnesia milk of magnesia milk of magnesia milk of magnesia milk of sulfur Milk Out My Nose milk paint milk paint milk pan Milk Parsley milk pasteurization milk pasteurization milk pasteurization milk pasteurization milk patch Milk pea milk persistency milk persistency milk persistency milk persistency milk pipeline milk pipeline milk pipeline milk pipeline Milk plasma Milk plasma

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