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Them Quotes by Anton Chekhov
- I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good…
- In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For…
- When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he…
- Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing…
- A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
- Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
- I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm…
- In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.
- People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
- The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
- These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves,…
- The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
- If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to…
- The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them…
- Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not change, it remains…
- Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.
- My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve great things,…
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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