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| Personal Information | Having obtained this pre-eminent honour, Godwine 51 did not carry himself high, but showed himself to all good men as much as he could like a father; and he did not discard the gentleness he had learned from boyhood, but...took infinite trouble to cultivate it in all his dealings with inferiors and among equals. Wherever wrongs appeared, right and law were promptly restored there. Hence he was not regarded as a master but was revered by all the country's sons as a father. |
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Having obtained this pre-eminent honour, Godwine 51 did not carry himself high, but showed himself to all good men as much as he could like a father; and he did not discard the gentleness he had learned from boyhood, but...took infinite trouble to cultivate it in all his dealings with inferiors and among equals. Wherever wrongs appeared, right and law were promptly restored there. Hence he was not regarded as a master but was revered by all the country's sons as a father.