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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

Anton Chekhov

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Happiness Notice People Summer Winter
What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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Forget Future Important Serious Time Willing
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
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Boredom Depression Insult
You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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People Sin Yourself
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Break Glass Light Moon Shine
The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Culture Fortunate Himself Man
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
You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Honesty Job Realization Start Work Yourself
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Animal Better Bird Wolf
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Act Gun Introduction Weapon Yourself
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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Appreciation Fruit Learning Ourselves Time Tree
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
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Action Grace Motion Oneself Person
The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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Easy Feeling Happiness Impossible Man Silence
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

I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

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