Anton Chekhov: I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it’s tobacco, th

I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacc — Anton Chekhov

I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it’s tobacco, then let it be tobacco.

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Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonora — Anton Chekhov
Как легко, доктор, быть философом на бумаге и как это трудно на деле! — Anton Chekhov
When we retreat to the country, we are hiding not from people, but from our prid — Anton Chekhov
In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and — Anton Chekhov
Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. — Mark Twain
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. — George Bernard Shaw
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything excep — Oscar Wilde
Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the us — Oscar Wilde
Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear; Her glorious fancies — James Russell Lowell
This universe is a drop from the ocean of his beauty, unable from its fulness to — Rumi
"If an entire nation of 300 millions took to similar economic exploitation, it w — Mahatma Gandhi