… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.

Leo Tolstoy
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… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.
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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: T … ▶
One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father;” or, “Go … ▶
Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.
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, Fyodo … ▶
Anything is better than lies and deceit! ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2014). Anna Karenina, p.378, OUP Oxford

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