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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Anton Chekhov

Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Authority Believe Lying Talk Yourself
Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Earth Life Nature Tree
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Actor Artist Love Passion Teacher Work
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Animal Better Bird Wolf
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Boredom Depression Insult
In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Change Permanent Spirit Universe
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Alcohol Bed Death Lying
Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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Beautiful Dignity Earth Exception Human Life Ourselves Purpose
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Death Different Man Philosophy Wisdom
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
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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Feeling Hard Time Thinking Understand
The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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Cruelty Ego Happiness People Seperate Understand Unity White
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
Women can’t forgive failure.
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Failure Forgiveness One Liner Woman
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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Myself People Reading Short Work
What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Choice Drink Fine Myself Weather

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