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Wife Quotes by Anton Chekhov
- Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
- I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
- I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature…
- Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm tired…
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