When we retreat to the country, we are hiding not from people, but from our pride, which, in the city and among people, operates unfairly and immoderately. (Anton Chekhov)

When we retreat to the country, we are hiding not from people, but from our pride, which, in the city and among people, operates unfairly and immoderately.

Anton Chekhov

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