Vulgar words in Letters of Anton Chekhov (Page 1)
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The _Vyestnik Evropi_ will criticize the essay, and for three years there will be in Russia an epidemic of nonsense which will give money and popularity to blockheads and do nothing but irritate intelligent people.
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The steamer whistles every minute; its whistle is midway between the bray of an ass and an Aeolian harp.
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Levitan was an ass not to come with me.
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if the public likes my works as little as I do those of other people which I am reading, what an ass I am!
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My calves have turned into cows, my copse has grown at least a yard higher, my heirs will make a capital bargain over the timber and will call me an ass, for heirs are never satisfied.
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They adore their father and have a fanatical faith in him and that means that Tolstoy really is a great moral force, for if he were insincere and not irreproachable his daughters would be the first to take up a sceptical attitude to him, for daughters are like sparrows: you don't catch them with empty chaff.... A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes, and, in the eyes of a woman he loves, an ass may pass for a philosopher; but a daughter is a different matter.... MELIHOVO, November 21, 1895.