Quotes by Tolstoy, Count Leo

Conceit is incompatible with understanding. >>

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Quotations about Books - Reading

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. >>

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention >>

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make readin >>

The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

Tolstoy, Count Leo