respect the human personality, and are therefore always forbearing, gentle, courteous, and compliant. They will overlook noise, and coild, and overdone meat, and the presence of strangers in the house....They are sincere and fear untruth like the very devil....They do not make fools of themselves in order to arouse sympathy....They are not vain....They develop an esthetic sense.From a letter by Anton Chekhov to his brother, as quoted in the foreword (by Robert Brustein) to the Signet Classics Edition of Anton Chekhov: The Major Plays vii (1964).
Overdone meat?
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