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Title: What Men Live By and Other Tales

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Translator: L. and A. Maude

Release Date: July, 2004 [EBook #6157]
Posting Date: June 13, 2009

Language: English

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WHAT MEN LIVE BY AND OTHER TALES

By Leo Tolstoy

"We know that we have passed out of death into life, because
we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death."
--1 "Epistle St. John" iii. 14.

"Whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in
need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the
love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not
love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and
truth." --iii. 17-18.

"Love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of
God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God;
for God is love." --iv. 7-8.

"No man hath beheld God at any time; if we love one another,
God abideth in us." --iv. 12.

"God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God,
and God abideth in him." --iv. 16.

"If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a
liar; for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen,
how can he love God whom he hath not seen?" --iv. 20.

WHAT MEN LIVE BY

A shoemaker named Simon, who had neither house nor land of his own,
lived with his wife and children in a peasant's hut, and earned his
living by his work. Work was cheap, but bread was dear, and what he
earned he spent for food. The man and his wife had but one sheepskin
coat between them for winter wear, and even that was torn to tatters,
and this was the second year he had been wanting to buy sheep-skins for
a new coat. Before winter Simon saved up a little money: a three-rouble
note lay hidden in his wife's box, and five roubles and twenty kopeks
were owed him by customers in the village.

So one morning he prepared to go to the village to buy the sheep-skins.
He put on over his s