Clearance
Although Tolstoy writes, a common and generally accepted delusion is that everyone can be qualified in some particular way — said to be kind, wicked, stupid, energetic, apathetic, and so on. “People are not like that,” explained Tolstoy, “we may say of a man that he is more often kind than cruel, more often wise than stupid, more often energetic than apathetic, or vice versa.” But it could never be accurate to say that one man is kind or wise and another is wicked or stupid. Yet we are always classifying people in this way
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