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Anton Chekhov

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Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.
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Letter to A.S. Suvorin (October 20, 1891)

 
Anton Chekhov

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