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the milk of human kindness

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the milk of human kindness  (literary)
being good and kind to other people
Usage notes: This phrase comes from Shakespeare's play 'Macbeth'.
She's one of those amazing people who's just overflowing with the milk of human kindness.
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.
Besides, a man with the milk of human kindness in him can scarcely abstain from doing a good-natured action, and one cannot be good-natured all round.
 
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