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Quotation from Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
“But only be good, dear, only be brave, only be kind and true always, and then you will never hurt any one, so long as you live, and you may help many, and the big world may be better because my little child was born.”
Little Lord Fauntleroy, Chapter VII (Project Gutenberg text)
Remembered as Cedric sings in church: his mother's good-night words on the evening before, which he repeated to the Earl.
Citation: "But only be good, dear, only be brave, only be kind and true always, and then you will never hurt any one, so long as you live, and you may help many, and the big world may be better because my little child was born." — Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Chapter VII (Project Gutenberg text). (id little-lord-fauntleroy-q3)
Portrait: Fauntleroy-FC-1886, Reginald Birch (illustrator); Charles Scribner's Sons, Public domain.
