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“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“A kind heart he hath; a woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.” William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wives of Windsor” - 1602

“Dad always told me that you can judge people by the way they treat waiters and assistants.” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

“Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.” Anatole France, “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard” - 1881

“The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world.” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” - 4th century BC

“The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.” Aesop, “Aesop's Fables”

“I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” - 1623

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” Tennessee Williams, “A Streetcar Named Desire” - 1947

“to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her, and to whom she is grateful.” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“I'd rather be myself . . . Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Emile, or On Education” - 1762

“The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness, and time to speak it in; you rub the sore, when you should bring the plaster.” William Shakespeare, “The Tempest” - 1623

“Your gentleness shall force more than your force move us to gentleness.” William Shakespeare, “As You Like It” - 1623

“I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.” William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice” - 1600

“There's place and means for every man alive.” William Shakespeare, “All's Well That Ends Well” - 1623

“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.” William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wives of Windsor” - 1602

“it is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.” Charles Dickens, “Oliver Twist” - 1838

“When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.” C. S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” - 1952

“And yet nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish co-operation of many individuals.” Albert Einstein, “The world as I see it” - 1949

“Oh, if the kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go!” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours.” Barack Obama, “Inaugural Address” - 20 January 2009

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over, so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” - 1953

“Through the gathering momentum of millions of acts of service and decency and kindness, I know we can overcome evil with greater good.” George W. Bush, “State of the Union Address” - 29 January 2002

“No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of the child.” Emma Goldman, “Anarchism and Other Essays” - 1910

“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” - 2000

“One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake—especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.” J. D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” - 1951

“Take a real smart guy and he ain’t hardly ever a nice fella.” John Steinbeck, “Of Mice and Men” - 1937

“An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.” Thomas Hardy, “Far from the Madding Crowd” - 1874

“Kind? . . . How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked.” George R. R. Martin, “A Feast for Crows” - 2005

“Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won’t all be poor.” John Steinbeck, “The Grapes of Wrath” - 1939

“I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.” Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick” - 1851

“If you’ve ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you’ll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.” Stephen King, “11/22/63” - 2011

“human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.” Virginia Woolf, “Mrs Dalloway” - 1925

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