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Read & copy the quotation
“I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don’t want to be UN-friends.”
- Source
- The Railway Children
- Date
- 1906
Meaning of “I think everyone in the world is friends…”
Bobbie expresses a child’s hopeful belief that showing peaceful intent can sometimes turn strangers or antagonists into friends.
Where does it come from?
The Railway Children, Project Gutenberg #1874. Bobbie says this to her mother after discussing relationships with people they have met; Mother answers “Perhaps you’re right,” preserving the line as hopeful fictional dialogue rather than an unconditional social rule.