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Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
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These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.
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If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.
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