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Quotation by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian author, playwright. Letter, February 15, 1900, to V.A. Posse. Complete Works and Letters in Thirty Volumes, Letters, vol. 9, p. 54, "Nauka" (1980).
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