Anton Chekhov: We fret ourselves to reform life, in order that posterity may be happy, and posterity will say as usual: "In the past it

We fret ourselves to reform life, in order that posterity may be happy, and post — Anton Chekhov

We fret ourselves to reform life, in order that posterity may be happy, and posterity will say as usual: "In the past it used to be better, the present is worse than the past."

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