Quote#Wisdom
Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it
Quote byMary Augusta Ward · 1851–1920
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Robert Elsmere (1888), Book I, Ch. iii, pp. 33–34.
English (original)
Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
— Mary Augusta Ward
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