Why is gambling forbidden while women in costumes which evoke sensuality are not forbidden? They are a thousand times more dangerous!
Leo TolstoyAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: russian
- Born: September 9, 1828
- Died: November 20, 1910
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