But the peasants - how do the peasants die?

Leo Tolstoy
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But the peasants - how do the peasants die?
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How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all! ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2016). War and Peace, p.117, Xist Publishing
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