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Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other

Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other
– Anton Chekhov

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  1. I’ve never been in love. I’ve dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost. – Anton Chekhov
  2. the medicine wheel is inside of you it not in a pile of stones the medicine wheel is inside the heart and body – Medicine Turtle
  3. There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality. – Anton Chekhov
  4. I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey – is it possible that’s attractive to women? – Anton Chekhov
  5. They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death. – Anton Chekhov
  6. The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them. – Anton Chekhov
  7. We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. – Anton Chekhov
  8. Once a man gets a fixed idea, there’s nothing to be done. – Anton Chekhov
  9. No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. – Anton Chekhov
  10. If you want to work on your acting, work on yourself. – Anton Chekhov
  11. Man is what he believes. – Anton Chekhov
  12. Only one who loves can remember so well. – Anton Chekhov
  13. MASHA: Isn’t there some meaning?TOOZENBACH: Meaning? -¦ Look out there, it’s snowing. What’s the meaning of that? – Anton Chekhov
  14. For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch. – Anton Chekhov
  15. I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. – Anton Chekhov
  16. And the existence is tedious, anyway; it is a senseless, dirty business, this life. – Anton Chekhov
  17. True happiness is impossible without solitude. The fallen angel probably betrayed God because he longed for solitude, which angels do not know. – Anton Chekhov
  18. Podtyagin considers whether to take offence or not — and decides to take offence. – Anton Chekhov
  19. I clench my teeth as tears come. I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn’t much I can do to stop them. ~ ‘Tris – Veronica Roth
  20. Think about it, if we fed our passion the way we fed our fears, we would be achieving our dreams and making the most of our years. – Nikki Rowe
  21. There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be fed by something. – Chloe Thurlow
  22. Fed by plants, fed up with the world – Evan Baldonado
  23. You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife. – Lisa Kleypas
  24. When a man takes a mistress, he doesn’t turn around and divorce his wife. – Arthur Golden
  25. A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  26. Love and war are exactly alike. It is lawful to use tricks and slights to obtain a desired end. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  27. If this be magic, let it be an art lawful as eating. – William Shakespeare
  28. Good night! Good night!Far flies the light;But still God’s loveShall shine above,Making all bright,Good night! Good night! – Victor Hugo
  29. With This Time Lost, Comes Time To Spend.To Spend On Love, Friends, Family, And Most Of All.. Time To Spend On Life. – Jesse Holdeman
  30. I don’t mind functional medicine. I suppose it has to be better than dysfunctional medicine. – Nancy S Mure
  31. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. – Hippocrates
  32. I don’t mind the term functional medicine — I suppose it’s better than dysfunctional medicine. – Nancy S Mure
  33. Law and order are the medicine of the politic body and when the politic body gets sick, medicine must be administered. – BR Ambedkar
  34. Sethian began, sounding thoughtful. -œAs I said, last night was more than a night of pleasure. When I brought you into my bed, you became my wife. – Cristina Rayne
  35. She treated Vanessa and me as if we were visiting budgerigars that needed to be fed and then put somewhere dark for the night. – Alexandra Fuller
  36. The night I was born, my great uncle Moanea, the village forester, shot a wolf. The villagers roasted it in the fire and fed the meat to the dogs. – Teodor Flonta
  37. We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.’ -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of daughter Annie – Deborah Heiligman
  38. I wouldn’t be a good wife, but I would be a wife in a way that was cinematically compelling. – Gabby Bess
  39. A righteous wife is a respectful wife. – Habeeb Akande
  40. The better the wife,the happier the man.The happier the man,the happier the wife. – Matshona Dhliwayo

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