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All Quotes by author - Anton Chekhov
" A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does. "
Sauce
Else
Notice
" Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. "
Living
Life
Idiot
" Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. "
Light
Communication
Broken
" Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. "
Born
You
Talent
" If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. "
Loneliness
Afraid
Marry
" I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky. "
Day
Wife
Sky
" It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook. "
Write
Cook
Easier
" Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. "
Knowledge
You
Wisdom
" Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. "
Time
Appreciate
Fruit
" Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. "
Unite
Respect
People
" Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. "
Tired
Night
Wife
" Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric. "
Eccentric
Like
Money
" No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. "
People
Corrupt
Fairness
" One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. "
Mistake
God
Without
" Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding. "
Society
Passion
Good
" People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. "
People
Wisdom
Winter
" People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about. "
Talk
Who
People
" There is nothing new in art except talent. "
Talent
Art
New
" The sea has neither meaning nor pity. "
Pity
Sea
Neither
" The University brings out all abilities, including incapability. "
Including
Out
University
" The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well. "
Surrounded
Well
Art
" The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles. "
World
Fires
Hatred
" To advise is not to compel. "
Advise
Compel
Wisdom
" To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God. "
God
Judge
Good
" We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. "
See
Sky
Find
" When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean, that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two, that's science. "
You
Start
Science
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