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If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Age: 79 †
Born: 1879
Born: February 17
Died: 1958
Died: November 9
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