Leo Tolstoy
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In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering, and that, consequently, this feeling - should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men. ✨ graf Leo Tolstoy (1903). Essays and Letters /by Leo Tolstoy ; Translated by Aylmer Maude

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