People · 1906
Only a little, it might be. But if every man did the little he could — what a different world!
— Evelyn Beatrice Hall · The Friends of Voltaire
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The idea here is modest but hopeful: each person's contribution may be small, yet if everyone did what they could, the world would look very different. It shifts attention from grand gestures to the combined effect of many ordinary efforts.
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