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name: "Arthur Conan Doyle on Making the World Better"
date: 2026-06-21
link: "https://wordsmith.org/words/elginism.html"
linkText: "wordsmith.org"
source: "A.Word.A.Day"
topics: [quotes]
tags: [kindness, character, tolerance, awad]
description: "On leaving the world a little better for your presence."
---

> I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence; and 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.

— Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and writer (22 May 1859–1930). A.Word.A.Day Thought for Today.