If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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