| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 61402 |
| QUOTATION: | I sit on a mans back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible meansexcept by getting off his back. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Leo Tolstoy (18281910), Russian novelist, philosopher. What Then Must We Do? Ch. 16 (1886). |
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