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Doing too many good deeds may cost one the power to see good in others
Drawn from what Jane Addams said
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- Jane Addams American social reformer and founder of Hull House (1860 to 1935)
To perform too many good deeds may be to lose the power of recognizing good in others; to be too absorbed in carrying out a personal plan of improvement may be to fail to catch the great moral lesson which our times offer.
Where this was said
↗Democracy and Social Ethics (1902)gutenberg.org
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