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Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Anton Chekhov
Inspirational, Education, Age
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1929). “The Works of Anton Chekhov”

I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.

Anton Chekhov
Stupid, Mistake, Age
Letter to E. M. Savrova-Yust, February 28, 1895.

Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.

Anton Chekhov
Yield, Eight, Age
Anton Chekhov's letter to P.A. Sergeenko, March 6, 1889.

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