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Faith is the force of life.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.
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This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.
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You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.
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