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Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far as blather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.
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Letter to A.S. Suvorin (January 4, 1889)

 

Anton Chekhov

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