Kindness - in Literature

In Literature

  • It has been suggested that 'most of Shakespeare's opus could be considered a study of human kindness'.
  • Robert Louis Stevenson considered that 'the essence of love is kindness; and indeed it may best be defined as passionate kindness: kindness, so to speak, run mad and become importunate and violent'.

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