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Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals renders the goals themselves despicable. - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Attribution: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian author, playwright. Letter, August 1, 1892, to his editor and friend, A.S. Suvorin. Complete Works and Letters in Thirty Volumes, Letters, vol. 5, p. 101, “Nauka” (1976).

Categories: Ambition, Author, Morality, Playwright

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