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Anton Chekhov has 248 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
• People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
• Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
• Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill…
• If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
• Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
• The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
• We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
• People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
• Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
• I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in…
• When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

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