"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."
"Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck."
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Source: Difficult People. Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1886.
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