Anton Chekhov: There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversati

There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its — Anton Chekhov

There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue.

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