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It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth. - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Attribution: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian author, playwright. Letter, December 25, 1888, to S.P. Kuvshinnikova. Complete Works and Letters in Thirty Volumes, Letters, vol. 3, p. 103, “Nauka” (1976).

Categories: Art And Artists, Author, Books, Playwright, Wealth And The Wealthy

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