Who said "A kind word costs nothing but may purchase everything."?

This quote is attributed to Desiderius Erasmus.

A kind word costs nothing but may purchase everything. - Desiderius Erasmus

"A kind word costs nothing but may purchase everything."

Desiderius Erasmus Kindness

Humanist Scholar Theologian Dutch 1466–1536

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