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Letters of Anton Chekhov (Tchekhov) - Penn State University

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<strong>Letters</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Anton</strong> <strong>Chekhov</strong> to His Family and Friends with biographical sketchMOSCOW, October 26, 1895.Tolstoy’s daughters are very nice. They adore their father and havea fanatical faith in him and that means that Tolstoy really is a greatmoral force, for if he were insincere and not irreproachable his daughterswould be the first to take up a sceptical attitude to him, fordaughters are like sparrows: you don’t catch them with empty chaff…. A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as helikes, and, in the eyes <strong>of</strong> a woman he loves, an ass may pass for aphilosopher; but a daughter is a different matter ….336

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