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Well-meaning people smashed my heart with their unintentional insults.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011
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Well-meaning and concerned friends and family will want to help you feel better.
Bree Maresca-Kramer: Got Dumped? 7 Steps to Being Better Instead of Bitter Bree Maresca-Kramer 2012
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Well-meaning friends assured me that caring for a baby was simple.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011
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Well-meaning friends assured me that caring for a baby was simple.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011
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Well-meaning people smashed my heart with their unintentional insults.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011
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Well-meaning and sincere, not a little industrious, the sisters are as loopy and set in their ways as Aunt Tillie on TV's Bewitched.
James Scarborough: The Sugar Bean Sisters, Little Fish Theatre, San Pedro, CA James Scarborough 2011
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Well-meaning attempts to force other people to be good tend to backfire, as is happening now in Afghanistan.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Well-meaning friends who are there and willing to console can, unwittingly, merely allow someone to postpone such a reckoning indefinitely.
Carolyn Hax: Train-wreck of a friend is heading for a cliff 2011
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Well-meaning and sincere, not a little industrious, the sisters are as loopy and set in their ways as Aunt Tillie on TV's Bewitched.
James Scarborough: The Sugar Bean Sisters, Little Fish Theatre, San Pedro, CA James Scarborough 2011
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Well-meaning people often concluded that capitalism was dumb, wasteful, and irrational.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Democracy and the Appeal of Socialism 2010
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