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Leo Tolstoy Quotes: Wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort, is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away.
         

Wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort, is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away.


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