Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

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Topic

Family dysfunction Family Parents and children

Author

Leo Tolstoy

Source

Anna Karenina

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Russia Europe

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Original Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. The Russian Messenger, 1878.

Current Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. Translated by Constance Garnett. Modern Library, 2000.

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Another quote by Leo Tolstoy

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

Leo Tolstoy

What Is Art?

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Topic
Purpose of art

Author

Leo Tolstoy
Source
What Is Art?
Medium
Essay
Statement Type
Definition
Language
Russian
Time
1897 1890s 19th century
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Original Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. What Is Art? 1897, ch. 8.

Current Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. What Is Art? Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin Classics, 1996.

Another quote about Parents and children

For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.

William Ross Wallace

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Topic
Raising kids Parents and children Power of education Value of education

Author

William Ross Wallace
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Proverbs, aphorisms and adages
Language
English
Time
1865 1860s 19th century
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Citation

Wallace, William Ross. "What Rules the World." 1865.

Another quote originally in Russian

Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

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Prophets Martyrs

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Source
The Brothers Karamazov
Medium
Novel
Language
Russian
Time
1880 1880s 19th century
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Original Citation

Dostoevsky, Feodor. Братья Карамазовы (Brat'ya Karamazovy) [The Brothers Karamazov]. The Russian Messenger. Jan. 1879-Nov. 1880. Serial.

Current Citation

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Everyman's Library, 1992, pt. 2, bk. 6, ch. 3.