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Leo Tolstoy Quotes

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy

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Novelist Quotes
Category:
Russian Novelist Quotes
Date of Birth:
September 9, 1828
Date of Death:
November 20, 1910
Nationality:
Russian
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