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By Leo Tolstoy
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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- Translated by Constance Garnett; Project Gutenberg text, eBook #1399
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The opening sentence of Anna Karenina (Part One, Chapter 1), in Constance Garnett's English translation. It is the narrator's voice, not a character speaking. Tolstoy wrote in Russian, so this is the translator's wording and other translations differ.