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“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”

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Wordsworth is recalling the village schoolmaster of his childhood, who died poor and unrecorded. The phrase 'little, nameless, unremembered' is doing the real work: what is best is also what leaves no trace.

Source: The Prelude, Book VIII

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