It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on…

Leo Tolstoy
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It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict. ✨ graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy
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It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict. ✨ graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

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