Quotation by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far as blather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian author, playwright. Letter, January 4, 1889, to his editor and friend, A.S. Suvorin. Complete Works and Letters in Thirty Volumes, Letters, vol. 3, p. 122, "Nauka" (1976).

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