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It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
Anton Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov
Age: 44 †
Born: 1860
Born: January 1
Died: 1904
Died: January 1
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Journalist
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Antón Pávlovič Čéhov
Antón Pávlovich Chékhov
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If you wish women to love you be original I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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[In] death at least there would be one profit it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.
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Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.
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In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.
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I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.
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If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter
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