good thing

"It is a good thing to have a rich son," said Captain Rushton, humorously.

It was a good thing that from any cause the transgressor should find his ways hard.

It was, all felt, a good thing to have a Mr. Abel in Georgetown.

And verily it is not a good thing to live in the East for any length of time.

Doctor, if you undertake it, said Johnson, I am sure youll make a good thing of it.

It was more than they had bargained for, and was altogether too much of a good thing.

Anyway, he did not give it up, and that is a good thing for us to remember.

If your feeling is not pride, why call a good thing by a bad name?

It's simply an insane attempt to pull every good thing down!

Personally I cannot see that it is a good thing for any man to drink; but I am no judge.