Quote by Leo Tolstoy
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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God. – Leo Tolstoy

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Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. – Leo Tolstoy

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Nature
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No one could give her such soothing and sensible consolation as this little three-month-old creature when he lay at her breast and she felt the movement of his lips and the snuffling of his tiny nose. – Leo Tolstoy

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Breastfeeding
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Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. – Leo Tolstoy

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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius. – Anna Pavlova

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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. – Rudyard Kipling

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