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In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian author, playwright. Letter, December 17, 1890, letter to his editor and friend, A.S. Suvorin. Complete Works and Letters in Thirty Volumes, Letters, vol. 4, p. 169, "Nauka" (1976).

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