Sedulia's Quotations: Tolstoy: "Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women."

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Tolstoy: "Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women."

"Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women."

--Prince Vassily to Anna Pavlovna, in ch. 3 of War and Peace (published 1865) by Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), 2007 translation by Richard Pevear (1943- ) and Larissa Volokhonsky

03 June 2008 in Men, women, children, families, Russian | Permalink