When the woman showed her love for the children that were not her own, and wept over them, I saw in her the living God, and understood What men live by. (Leo Tolstoy)

When the woman showed her love for the children that were not her own, and wept over them, I saw in her the living God, and understood What men live by.

Leo Tolstoy

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