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Leo Tolstoy Quotes: One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.
         

One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.


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