If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him 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 Early Modern

Faust, German literature

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From 'Elective Affinities'

Date / Period

1809

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35737/35737-h/35737-h.htm

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