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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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Anton Chekhov
Age: 44 †
Born: 1860
Born: January 1
Died: 1904
Died: January 1
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Antón Pávlovič Čéhov
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