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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. – Leo Tolstoy

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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. – Leo Tolstoy

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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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Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away. – Proverb

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My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play. – Hugh Leonard

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Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. – Aeschylus

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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me. – A. N. Wilson

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