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And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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Leo Tolstoy

Author · Philosopher · 1828–1910

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Tolstoy Archive, *Some Social Remedies* (1900), “Three Methods of Reform”
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