"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
— Compassion

January 1, 1970

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as quoted in My Country Vol. 2, No. 3 (September 1968) by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23.