Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library…

Leo Tolstoy
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Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn. ✨ Virginia Woolf, Samuel Solomonovitch Koteliansky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Aleksandr Borisovich Golʹdenveĭzer (2006). Translations from the Russian
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