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Plus, a lot of social policies that many Californians consider beneficent and broad-minded that, to put it mildly, others around the country consider much less so.

Virgil’s journey toward a beneficent existence starts with a family member’s funeral, continues through another relative’s hospice stay and then achieves fulfillment with our hero’s compassion-driven decision to look after the dead.

She brought to the ghostly role her own expansive sense of history — once again revealing eternity through her beneficent, dazzling, invincible artistry.

“Not that they were perfect by any means, but they were infinitely more successful and beneficent colonizers than other European countries.”

Speaking to the Australian Newspaper about the upcoming vote, Mr Howard described colonisation as "inevitable" and praised the British as "infinitely more successful and beneficent colonisers" than their European counterparts.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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