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John Watson is a relatively common name so this attribution is of limited help without further information. A 1995 book of daily meditation topics contains an epigraph that credits the saying to a figure whose name does not sound ancient :īe kind everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. The citations below are a select subset in reverse-chronological order. Instead, another surprising word was used. The original aphorism did not use the word “kind”.
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QI was able to trace the saying back more than one-hundred years to its likely origin. Philo of Alexandria is another popular choice when assigning attribution, e.g., QuotationsBook credits Philo. Quote Investigator: The websites ThinkExist, Quotations Page, and Brainy Quote do have this quotation listed under the august name of Plato. It is attributed to Plato on this little thing I have up in my office, but I was told by a friend that it wasn’t him.įred Shapiro replied “this sounds anachronistic for Plato by almost 2500 years” and then invited readers to attempt to trace the quotation. Question: This question is from Glossolalia Black.īe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Fred Shapiro’s posts appear on the Freakonomics blog. This blog post is based on a question that was posed at the wonderful blog used by the quotation expert Fred Shapiro who is the editor of one of the best reference works in this area: The Yale Book of Quotations.
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Plato? Philo of Alexandria? Ian MacLaren? John Watson?