Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‘don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.’
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
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