Leo Tolstoy Quotes

When the woman showed her love for the children that were not her own, and wept over them, I saw in her the living God, and understood What men live by.

Leo Tolstoy

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• When the woman showed her love for the children that were not her own, and wept over them, I saw in her the living God, and understood What men live by.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • God
  • Men
  • Live