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Ep 61 - How Much Land Does A Man Need? (Tolstoy)

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Tolstoy's the Man Who Has Too Much Is Not Enough

Tolstoy is brilliant not only with shifting perspectives but when it comes to rendering nature again with Andre at a really sublime moment in war and peace he looks up at the lofty sky. There's always a but when the grass is greener on the other side you never get to the other side always wanting means you're always lacking as Seneca said  it is not the man who has too little but the man who craves more that is poor. We find ourselves at home and home is where the heart is there is wisdom in the cliches and the old parables we try to find ourselves but if the problem is with ourselves then uprooting and moving to another location is

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