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01-08-2016 | Your Best Life

Your Best Life: Kindness is Its Own Reward

Author: John D. Kelly IV, MD

Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® | Issue 8/2016

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The novelist Henry James was asked by his nephew what he ought to do with his life and how he should live it. The great author responded: “Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind” [1]. …
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Title
Your Best Life: Kindness is Its Own Reward
Author
John D. Kelly IV, MD
Publication date
01-08-2016
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® / Issue 8/2016
Print ISSN: 0009-921X
Electronic ISSN: 1528-1132
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-016-4927-8

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