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- War and Peace (translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude), Book Twelve, Chapter XVI
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- Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude; Project Gutenberg text, eBook #2600
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- War and Peace (translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude), Book Ten, Chapter XVI
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- Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude; Project Gutenberg text, eBook #2600
…so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
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- Anna Karenina (translated by Constance Garnett), Part Two, Chapter 7
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- Translated by Constance Garnett; Project Gutenberg text, eBook #1399
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- Anna Karenina (translated by Constance Garnett), Part Eight, Chapter 12
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- Translated by Constance Garnett; Project Gutenberg text, eBook #1399
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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- Anna Karenina (translated by Constance Garnett), Part One, Chapter 1
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- Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a Bondswoman of Olden Time ... with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life" (reprint of Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl"), 1875 · p. 164
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