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The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions ( meaning to do the right thing is no good excuse if you did the wrong thing anyway ... )

"The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions"



"The road to hell is paved with good intentions" (proverb) says that sometimes we do the wrong thing even though we had intended to do the right thing; our actions have bad results instead of the good results that we had hoped for.

Example: "Really, I never meant to hurt anybody..." Reply: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."



If a person's actions have bad results, yet they complain that their intentions were good, you might say, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions".





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