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“Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”
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“I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.”
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“judges, police officers, doctors—in course of time, through habit, grow so callous that they cannot, even if they wish it, take any but a formal attitude to their clients; in this respect they are not different from the peasant who slaughters sheep and calves in the back-yard, and does not notice the blood.”
― Best Short Stories of Anton Chekov
― Best Short Stories of Anton Chekov
“Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.”
― The Symposium
― The Symposium
“A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
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