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Family Happiness

Leo Tolstoy

Form
Form Novella
Year
Year 1859
Originally in
Originally in Russian
Pages
Pages 120

A girl of seventeen marries her guardian, a man twice her age, and their first year in the country is pure happiness. Then she wants Petersburg, the love burns out, and what is left is a quieter marriage they can live in.

He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.
Family Happiness, Leo Tolstoy

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