Tolstoy quotation

[Saunders, Jean]

Thank you.

Jean Saunders 
Administrative Assistant for Development 
Memphis University School 

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Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 8:55 PM
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Tolstoy quotation

the quotation may turn out to be a rethinking (and continuation) of a
more simple phrase by Tolstoj
Одна свеча другие зажжет, а сама в своем свете не умалится.
<Круг чтения> (т. 42, с. 286); Записная книжка 1879 (т. 48, с. 363).
http://feb-web.ru/feb/tolstoy/critics/LN1/LN1-561-.htm
that is the only closest I remember.
--
Валерий Белянин
Valeri Belianine / Valery Belyanin


On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Saunders, Jean
<Jean.Saunders at musowls.org> wrote:
>> "As a candle shines only when that of which it is made is being spent,
> so life is only real when it is being spent for others."

> Jean Saunders
> Administrative Assistant for Development
> Memphis University School
> jean.saunders at musowls.org
>

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