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common good

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Noun1.common good - the good of a community
commonweal
good - benefit; "for your own good"; "what's the good of worrying?"
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The sense of the value of "ruling and being ruled in turn" is derived from the experience that the ruler may use his power to subordinate the lives of the citizens of the state not to the common good but to his own private purposes.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
Not to do the honours of her house with common good breeding
Northanger Abbey by Austen, Jane View in context
He had not his full share in the common good of men; he could not even pass muster with the insignificant, but must be singled out for pity, and excepted from what was a matter of course with others.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
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