Leo Tolstoy quotes about children?

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1. chickadee34 says

   The only one I'm familiar with is, “Hypocrisy in anything whatsoever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.” (Tolstoy)

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2. Jo W says

   “We lost because we told ourselves we lost” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

   “All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

   “The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

   “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

   “The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

   “I have discovered nothing new, I have only perceived what I already knew.” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

   “Conceit is incompatible with understanding” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

   “A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

   “Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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