This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time … - Anton Chekhov

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Without a doubt, the prospects (of China-US economic and trade relationship) are bright.

Anton Chekhov

This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And with it all, what conceit! What pretension!

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