"Truth, like gold ...."

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Leo Tolstoy

"But that's the whole aim ...."

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

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"I often think how unfairly ...."

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

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Leo Tolstoy