"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."
"My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve great things, it is the work of their hands; they are splendid people and their absolute love of their children places them above the highest praise. It cloaks all of their shortcomings, shortcomings that may have resulted from a difficult life."
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Source: Letter to M.M. Chekhov, July 29, 1877.
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