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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.’

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.