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Last message to Scouts
A farewell letter that Robert Baden-Powell prepared for the Scouts of the world, to be published after his death; it appeared after he died in Kenya in January 1941. It contains his advice to try to leave the world a little better than you found it.
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“Leave this world a little better than you found it.”
— Robert Baden-Powell, Last message to Scouts (published 1941); checked via Wikiquote, not the original. The sentence as printed begins "Try and leave this world…" (e.g. The Children's Newspaper, 8 March 1941, and Blassingame, Baden-Powell: Chief Scout of the World, 1966, both seen via Internet Archive full-text search); original manuscript not checked