Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Leo TolstoyPopular condensed version of a passage in Three Methods of Reform (1900)
About Leo Tolstoy
Russian novelist, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. (1828-1910)
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- Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Anna Karenina (1877), opening line
- There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.War and Peace (1869)
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