Elisabeth Salisbury
I recently read the wonderful biography of Tom Stoppard by Hermione Lee (Tom Stoppard: A Life) and was struck by the following quotation from his work The Dark Side.
“The earth is a common. You can’t save it for yourself but you can save it for others, and the others will save it for you. The other is us, and we are the other. We are of a kind, we are natural born to kindness, which means to act as to our kind, as kin to kin, as kindred, which is to act kindly. What is the Good? It is nothing but a contest of kindness.”
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Forty-Three Newsletter • Number 506 • June 2021
Oxford Friends Meeting
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