#unkindness

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness. ↗

— George Eliot

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Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#come #down #drink #gentlemen #hope

But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers. ↗

— Preston Brooks

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I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels. ↗

— Patrick White

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