What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. -Leo Tolstoy

 

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.


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Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. -Leo Tolstoy
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The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.

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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

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True life is lived when tiny changes occur. -Leo Tolstoy
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I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

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