Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
ANTON CHEKHOVA good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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