Leo Tolstoy.
• Tome, Brian (2010), Free Book page: 132, pages: 230, publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc.
• Tome, Brian (2010), Free Book page: 132, pages: 230, publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc.
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Everyone talks of changing the world, but no one talks of changing himself.
— Leo Tolstoy on English proverbs (alphabetically by proverb)
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• Tome, Brian (2010), Free Book page: 132, pages: 230, publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Leo Tolstoy
Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy Ле́в Никола́евич Толсто́й, usually rendered Leo Tolstoy, or sometimes Tolstoi (9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910) was a Russian writer, philosopher and social activist (social critic), whose novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina are internationally praised classics of world literature. He was a major influence on the development of Christian anarchism and pacifism, contributing to such nonviolent resistance movements as those of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and James Bevel.
About Leo Tolstoy
Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy Ле́в Никола́евич Толсто́й, usually rendered Leo Tolstoy, or sometimes Tolstoi (9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910) was a Russian writer, philosopher and social activist (social critic), whose novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina are internationally praised classics of world literature. He was a major influence on the development of Christian anarchism and pacifism, contributing to such nonviolent resistance movements as those of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and James Bevel.
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