“And there is no greatness where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent.”Leo Tolstoy · Organic Quote T-Shirt
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Just before it, he warns that calling something great without asking if it's right is "to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable meanness."
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“And there is no greatness where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent.”Leo Tolstoy · Organic Quote T-Shirt
Your kid asked who your hero is. It took you longer to answer than you expected.
Just before it, he warns that calling something great without asking if it's right is "to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable meanness."
Three posts hold up one word. Each is a thing Tolstoy found missing in Napoleon.
Organic cotton.
Wear it on the days you're choosing who to look up to.
Same line, also on
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Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Book XIV, Ch. XVIII, 1869. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude.
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