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eye therefore He is cruel I say that
And whereas thou sayest, 'Because He commanded to pluck out an eye for an eye , therefore He is cruel'; I say that if He had not given this commandment, then He would have seemed, in the judgment of most men, to be that which thou sayest He is."
— from My Religion by Tolstoy, Leo, graf


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