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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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George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.1127, e-artnow
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.