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Jan de Hartog Quotes: Do not commit the error common among the young of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.
         

Do not commit the error common among the young of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.


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Do not commit the error common among the young of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.
         



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Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

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