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Tell Quotes by Anton Chekhov
- One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
- Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
- What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle…
- Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but…
- Anna Petrovna (to Shabelsky): You can't make a simple joke without an injection of venom. You are a poisonous man. Joking apart, Count, you're very…
- Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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