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Leo Tolstoy, the great writer, famously renounced

Leo Tolstoy, the great writer, famously renounced his inherited wealth and chose to live as an ascetic and hermit in his later years. One of his disciples, a writer named Chertkov, was a wealthy aristocrat. At one point, Tolstoy learned that Chertkov had traveled first class on a recent journey. He rebuked him, urging him to travel second class like ordinary people. On his next trip, the obedient Chertkov complied—by hiring an entire second-class coach for himself.