There can be only one permanent revolution-a moral one.

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There can be only one permanent revolution-a moral one.

Leo Tolstoy

1900

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Tolstoy, Leo. "Three Methods of Reform." Pamphlets: Translated from the Russian. Free Age Press, 1900.

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