Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) English poet, illustrator, painter and translator
The Cloud Confines, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“We know that kindness is always pleasant and reassuring. But strangely not everyone thinks and acts this way.”
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