“The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.”

—  Leo Tolstoy

What Is To Be Done? (1886) Chap. XL, as translated in The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï (1902) edited by Nathan Haskell Dole, p. 281

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