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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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Apathy
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. – Anton Chekhov

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Faith
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. – Anton Chekhov

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Medical
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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. – Samuel Johnson

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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. – Plutarch

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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. – Irving Babbitt

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In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part. – Jeremy Collier

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Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. Thats why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else. – Vivien Leigh

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Im not really interested in making money. – Steven Spielberg

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