Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled t…

Leo Tolstoy
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Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is. ✨ graf Leo Tolstoy (1891). Church and State and Other Essays: Including Money; Man and Woman: Their Respective Functions; The Mother; A Second Supplement to the Kreutzer Sonata
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Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is. ✨ graf Leo Tolstoy (1891). Church and State and Other Essays: Including Money; Man and Woman: Their Respective Functions; The Mother; A Second Supplement to the Kreutzer Sonata

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