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Quote by Anton Chekhov
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. – Anton Chekhov

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Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms. – Anton Chekhov

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There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. – Anton Chekhov

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