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All newspaper and journalistic activity is an intellectual brothel from which there is… — Leo Tolstoy

Letter

All newspaper and journalistic activity is an intellectual brothel from which there is no retreat.

Leo Tolstoy
1871
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NewspapersMediaMedia criticism
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1871
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Leo Tolstoy
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Tolstoy, Leo. Tolstoy's Letters: 1828-1879, translated and edited by R. F. Christian. Vol. 1, University of London The Athlone Press, 1978.
Original citation
Tolstoy, Leo. Letter to Prince V. P. Meshchersky. 22 Aug. 1871.

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