This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.
("War and Peace")
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Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.
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