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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

Anton Chekhov

For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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Brain God Lunch Mouth Respect
Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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Age Education Learning Time Wisdom
A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Alone Mad Marriage Togetherness Woman
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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Adventure Beautiful Body Conscious Life Live Oneself
If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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Cure Myself Offering People Remedy Thinking
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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Crisis Day Face Idiot Live
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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Author Beginning End Experience Lying Ourselves Story Writing
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Alone Hard Time Learning Lesson Life
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
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
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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God Government Himself Return Right
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
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Discipline Goodness People Precise
Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Better Himself Man
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Animal Better Bird Wolf
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Afraid Artist Deep Desire Hope

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