Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
In plain words
Try to be a bit kinder than you have to be, every single day.
Where these words come from
- 87% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Wikiquote Sourced section, The Little White Bird (1902) ch. 4 -- exact fictional line, not the common paraphrase 'Always be a little kinder than necessary.'
- The Little White Bird
- 1902 · London · Chapter 4, a father musing aloud to his son about kindness
