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"No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing."

Anton Chekhov, Russian Dramatist

Fool, Fools, Nothing

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"No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing."

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