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[Laurence Horn]

Hmmm.  I’m not parsing it that way.  A more standard version is

"You’re never too important to be kind/nice”

To be too important to be kind to others (i.e. so important that you’re not kind) is a Bad Thing, and the source of the quote here is saying nobody should be guilty of that kind of Bad Thing.  Or consider

A:  He thinks he’s too important to be kind to others.
B:  That {arrogant twerp/asshole}!  Nobody’s too important to be kind to others.  

> On Mar 7, 2019, at 8:28 PM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM> wrote:
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> "Nobody is too important to be kind to others"
> 
> Shouldn't that be ""Nobody is too important NOT to be kind to others"?
> 
> - Jim Landau
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