One must speak about serious things seriously.

 

One must speak about serious things seriously.
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Letter to A.N. Pleshcheev (September 9, 1888)

 

Anton Chekhov

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For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.

 

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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

 

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