Kindness

Mark Twain on Kindness

Browse 1 quotations attributed to Mark Twain, catalogued under kindness, with dates where available.

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Attributed to Mark Twain, entry #152579: "If she were drowning I would not look—but I would not pull her out. I would not be a party to that last and meanest unkindness, treachery to a would-be suicide. My sympathies have…"

1 Quotes by Mark Twain on Kindness

"If she were drowning I would not look—but I would not pull her out. I would not be a party to that last and meanest unkindness, treachery to a would-be suicide. My sympathies have been with the suicides for many, many years. I am always glad when the suicide succeeds in his undertaking. I always feel a genuine pain in my heart, a genuine grief, a genuine pity, when some scoundrel stays the suicide's hand and compels him to continue his life."

— Mark Twain

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