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Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one’s mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at. - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Attribution: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian author, playwright. Letter, January 2, 1889, to his brother, A.P. Chekhov. Complete Works and Letters in Thirty Volumes, Letters, vol. 3, pp. 121-122, “Nauka” (1976).

Categories: Author, Childhood, Parenthood, Playwright

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