A Calendar of Wisdom

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.

[Krug chteniia. English, Selections]

A calendar of wisdom : daily thoughts to nourish the soul / written and selected from the world’s sacred texts by Leo Tolstoy; translated from the Russian by Peter Sekirin.

p. cm.

This translation, drawn from the enl. and completely rev. second ed., does not include the fifty-two stories called “The Sunday reading stories.”

Includes index.

(alk. paper)

1. Conduct of life—Quotations, maxims, etc. I. Sekirin, Peter. II. Title.

BJ1581.2.T626213 1997

087′.1—dc21 97-23501

CIP

ISBN-13: 978-0-6848-3793-2

eISBN-13: 978-1-439-13095-7

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