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What Men Live by is the short story be Leo Tolstoy, published in 1885. Simon is a humble shoemaker that one day purchases sheep-skins in order to sew a new winter coat for his wife. He instead offers the coat to a Stanger and realizes something in the process. The story is summed up by the line, "all men live not by care for themselves but by love." The book includes several other stories.

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