Quote#Love
I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better…
Quote byArthur Conan Doyle · 1859–1930
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Stark Munro Letters (1894).
English (original)
I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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