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Wells Quotes by Anton Chekhov
- The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
- We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
- "Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I…
- It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present…
- Only one who loves can remember so well.
- 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…
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