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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.
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A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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