To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote. (George MacDonald)

To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

George MacDonald

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