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Re:A Translator’s Reckoning with the Women of the Odyssey by jimmywanger on Saturday December 09, 2017 @09:05PM (#15889404)
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/57886-all-great-literature-...

Who's making stuff up?

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Re:A Translator’s Reckoning with the Women of the Odyssey by pvg on Saturday December 09, 2017 @09:24PM (#15889464)
There just isn't any evidence Tolstoy ever said or wrote that. Nor would it make sense for someone who wrote Anna Karenina. You should read the link in my last reply. And/or Anna Karenina.
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