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  • The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling, as the sun and rain foster your favourite flowers. Cherish kind wishes, my children; for a time may come when you may be enabled to put them in practice.

    Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.439