Ocupation: Author
Life: March 21, 1905 - February 22, 1978
Birthday: March 21
Death: February 22
Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are not unfriendly; they offer a vast and solacing anonymity or an equally vast and solacing gregariousness. But one needs a neighbor on whom to practice compassion.
source: Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”
topic: Kindness, Compassion, Practice, Gregariousness, Unfriendly