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And the angel said - I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love. ✨ graf Leo Tolstoy (1902). The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï
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And the angel said - I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love. ✨ graf Leo Tolstoy (1902). The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï

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