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• Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
  -- Leo Tolstoy...
• The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience. -- Leo Tolstoy
• All happy families resemble each other; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
  Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) "Anna Karenina...
• Passionate kiss like spider web, lead to undoing of fly.
• Passionate kiss like spider's web, leads to undoing of fly.
• Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
  Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British novelist....
• A large spider in an old house built a beautiful web in which to catch flies.
  Every time a fly landed on the web and was entangled in it the spider devoured him, so that when another fly came along he would think the web was a safe and quiet place in which to rest....
• Boredom -- the desire for desires: Leo Tolstoy
• If you want to be happy, be. -- Leo Tolstoy