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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

Anton Chekhov

A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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Character Childhood Goodness Manner Notice
Brevity – the sister of talent.
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One Liner Talent
To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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Break exchange Future Immortal Instrument Lost Prediction Strange Worth
Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Accomplishment Ethics Logic
Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Authority Believe Lying Talk Yourself
Man is what he believes.
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Believe Himself Man
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself
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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Law Literature Medicine Myself Night Wife
My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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Body Freedom Health Holy Human Intelligence Manifestation Talent Violence
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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Alcohol Drink Life Literature Reality Yourself
Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Love Oneself Relationship Remember
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Art Life Work Yourself
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Correction Problem Solve State Writing
All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Future Hope Past Saint Sin
Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Lose Love Reason Try Yourself
There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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Angry Answer Funny Heart Human Laughter Sincere Yourself

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