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

Jan de Hartog

About Jan de Hartog

Portrait of Jan de Hartog

Jan de Hartog (April 22, 1914 – September 22, 2002) was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker.

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