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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the govern

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. – Leo Tolstoy

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

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