The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
(Help for the Starving, 1892)

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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace, 1869)

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace, 1869)

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina, 1877)

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