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Leo Tolstoy@leo-tolstoy Β· c. 1869
We do not love people so much for the good they have done us as for the good we have done them. This is why mothers love their children with a ferocity proportional to the cost of raising them, and why kindness breeds attachment in the giver more reliably than in the receiver.
β War and Peace; also Tolstoy's letters on love and service
19th Century