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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. – Leo Tolstoy

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War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. – Leo Tolstoy

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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. – Leo Tolstoy

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God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended. – David Wilkerson

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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt

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I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history. – Vivienne Westwood

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Confucius

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