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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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Jan de Hartog

Jan de Hartog
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Born: April 22, 1914
Died: September 22, 2002 (aged 88)
Bio: Jan de Hartog was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker.
Known for:
  1. The Spiral Road (1962)
  2. Ergens in Nederland (1940)
  3. The Key (1958)
  4. The Inspector (1962)

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