" No, on the whole it was better to say kind things of late people, even if they did not fully deserve them. Kindness, after all, did not distinguish between those who merited it and those who did not. It was like rain, she thought. It fell everywhere and made everything green and new and alive once more. That is what it did. "

― Alexander McCall Smith , To the Land of Long Lost Friends (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #20)