The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscie…

George MacDonald
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The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself. ✨ George MacDonald, U. C. Knoepflmacher (1999). The Complete Fairy Tales, p.9, Penguin
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