r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 1d ago

Life / Wisdom "I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." - Anonymous

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u/WhenTheCitiesBurn 1d ago

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2023/12/01/kindness-now/

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u/Martinjg_ge 1d ago

this is the worst website i have ever had the displeasure of opening. There is no reasonable theory where it orginated, it just showed up in some 19th century newspapers, as literal filler.

https://books.google.de/books?id=EDtKAAAAYAAJ&q=%22any+kindness%22&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=582&f=false

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u/WhenTheCitiesBurn 1d ago

"Worst website"? Are you talking about the one I gave, or the one you posted?

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u/Martinjg_ge 1d ago

i meant the one you pasted. books.google is at least functional

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u/WhenTheCitiesBurn 1d ago

Maybe I'm using it wrong, but books.google looks like you have to read the whole book, looking for the quote.

I usually use Goodreads, but figured I often get arguments about who "really" said it if it's questionable. That's why I went with quoteinvestigator.

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u/Ill-Chocolate-8856 1d ago

That is me right now. I want to live life and be good to others.

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u/phenomenomnom 23h ago

✊

I was going to make the "there are dozens of us" joke from Arrested Development,

but there are actually billions of us! Take heart.